Chapter 144 The Reward

The video was sent over and scrutinized for a day. In the end, the club gnashed its teeth and contacted Mo Qiang, readily preparing to settle the matter. Mo Qiang himself was stunned. He thought this matter would involve some haggling! That's why he posted online to pave the way, and prepared to intercept all dialogue records. He had also made preparations to record all phone calls and the like. They spent a day reviewing the video, while he was internally calculating countless counter-moves, but in the end, they came and said just one word: account.

The simplicity of the matter surprised Mo Qiang. While giving them the account, he greeted Ye Xiu.

"Is that so? That's good news!" Ye Xiu replied calmly, without much emotion. Because at this moment, he had another window on his screen, belonging to Zhan Loulan, who was over there in tears: "Everyone, you've really put us in a difficult spot!"

"What's wrong?" Ye Xiu asked.

It turned out that the clubs, having been tricked out of 150,000, didn't want to swallow their anger so easily. Mo Qiang? In their eyes, he was just a small fry, so they didn't bother arguing with Mo Qiang. Instead, they tried to contact Zhan Loulan directly, and then ridiculed him in a sarcastic tone.

The club's intention was clear: to let Zhan Loulan know that they weren't easy targets. They just didn't care about this small amount of money, so if you want it, you can have it! We're too lazy to argue with you about this matter, but we definitely have to look down on you for trying such a scheme.

Zhan Loulan felt so wronged!

He just felt that doing things this way was too undignified, so he refused to cooperate with the expert like he was fleeing, never expecting that the blame would fall entirely on him. The expert came out of it clean, without a trace. He could only blame himself for being too careless. Those five accounts were his own, so letting others use them like that, wouldn't he be the one taking the fall in the end?

Seeing the expert's reply of "Hehe hehe, I'm sorry for putting you in this position," Zhan Loulan deeply felt that he might have been set up!

"You can tell them it was me." But then he received another message that immediately relieved Zhan Loulan. Taking a little blame was nothing, but if the other party had deliberately done it, he would feel uncomfortable.

Seeing this reply, and thinking about his interactions with this expert so far, Zhan Loulan sincerely believed that this god really didn't care about this. So he wouldn't have had such thoughts as finding someone to take the blame. Everything was just a coincidence.

"Anyway, they've already insisted that it's me, so I'm too lazy to explain. Let's just leave it at that!" So Zhan Loulan also acted boldly.

"Really don't need to give you a share?" Ye Xiu asked.

"No need, no need." Zhan Loulan quickly fled again. Although he took the blame, he didn't intend to throw himself away. A true man has things he will and will not do, and Zhan Loulan was clearly a young man with principles.

"The money's here!" Mo Qiang, on the other hand, was still immersed in excitement. A week of hard work hadn't been in vain! In order to show their magnanimity and express their disdain for this matter, the clubs didn't haggle over the money at all. After receiving Mo Qiang's account, they immediately transferred the money.

"Okay, just leave it with you! How's the stuff I wanted? How's the contacting going?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Boss, it's only been one day, give me some time!" Mo Qiang said.

"Then go get busy!" Ye Xiu said.

"Just wait!" Mo Qiang got the reward, and was now full of vigor. Yesterday he was saying that those materials were quite difficult, but now he looked very confident.

With a wave of his hand, he earned 150,000, and with another wave of his hand, the money was all spent. The money didn't even pass through his own hands. Just this kind of trust in others alone made Chen Guo, who was watching from the side, quite admire him.

"Let's level up!" Ye Xiu stretched lazily and continued to level up.

On the club guild side, after settling the account with Mo Qiang, they urgently convened an online meeting to discuss the reward issues of the other two people.

Five wild accounts. Although the money was little, it was still money, and it still had to go through the club's financial procedures, which was equivalent to leaving a stain. The president of the club guild, although he had some financial power, wasn't the top leader of the club after all. These things would be reflected in their annual performance assessment. This expenditure wasn't much, but it was very annoying, making them seem somewhat incompetent.

To the outside world, they said in a high-profile manner that they didn't care about this small amount of money.

But in front of the boss, taking this kind of stance was just asking for a scolding.

They had already been tricked by five wild accounts from Yi Zhan Tianxia, and if they were tricked again by Destroyer Tirelessly and Lord Grim, making the same mistake twice or three times... oh my god, it would affect their careers!

The reward system had too many loopholes! It was really not good to continue, both publicly and privately. Not long after the discussion group gathered, several guild presidents expressed their firm intention to withdraw. If someone wanted to break up the group, letting the remaining people share the responsibility, then everyone would disagree even more. So after only ten minutes of discussion, they unanimously decided to end the reward activity, and to be cautious about such brain-dead behavior in the future.

The reward had been issued for a week, but the main targets hadn't even shown their faces. Five accompanying characters had tricked the clubs out of 150,000, a truly unpleasant ending.

More importantly, this activity had sparked a wave of enthusiasm, so how could they just end it? They had to give an explanation.

The 150,000 couldn't be wasted, and the video bought for 150,000 couldn't just be shelved. Using this as proof, the clubs demonstrated to the public how successful their actions had been. In fact, looking at the ten video files, every club gnashed its teeth, especially at the swaying "Little Qiang Production" characters at the beginning of each video, which they hated more and more. They all ordered the technicians to completely smash the opening.

Five accompanying characters had been accounted for, so what about the two with 500 price tags?

Unfortunately, they hadn't killed them even once, so in the end, they released a grand statement, saying that under the joint action of the clubs, Lord Grim and Destroyer Tirelessly, the two main culprits, had been hiding recently, and their behavior had finally become somewhat restrained. It was just a pity for their five underlings, who had become expendable and were completely wiped out by them.

Since everyone was very busy, they decided to end this matter for now, but they didn't promise not to launch such actions again in the future. Scavengers, be careful!

It really had to be said that to the vast majority of players who didn't know the inside story, they really thought that the clubs' actions had been a great success. The released video was a selection of the best parts from ten recorded videos. So ordinary players didn't know about the exaggerated loopholes in it.

This time, the club guilds had been acting under the banner of cleaning up the scavengers, but they hadn't expected to accidentally correct things. After this, the scavenging atmosphere in the Realm of Gods really did become much more restrained. Players were also very smart, and when faced with annoying scavengers, they used the actions of the major guilds as a threat. This brain-dead reward action could be considered to have slightly benefited the players, and the clubs had also gained some praise.

However, these were all things that would only become apparent some time later. At this time, after the club guilds issued this statement, who was the most directly affected? Of course, it was Ye Xiu. Although he still needed to be cautious, he didn't have to transfer as soon as he saw a shadow, acting like he was startled by every rustle in the grass.

In the next two days, leveling up was relatively peaceful. Lord Grim had steadily risen to level 54. Given Ye Xiu's game time, this leveling speed was quite slow after level 50. But he couldn't help it, he had no dungeons to run!

And starting these days, Ye Xiu's busyness was no longer limited to the game. He began to use a lot of time outside the game to extensively search and study materials.

Why? Because the information about the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella that he had on hand had reached its limit.

55, 60, 65, 70. For these four stages of improvement, Ye Xiu needed to find suitable materials and props in the vast Glory continent himself.

And the number of materials and props available at these levels was far more than before. Because from level 55, Glory had a new continent, the Realm of Gods, which was even larger than the old Glory continent. Of course, there were also many new items. Selecting the appropriate upgrade materials from them was naturally a greater amount of work. Ye Xiu had become even busier during this time.

Chen Guo, after all, was the internet cafe owner, and couldn't just focus on the game and ignore the business. She still had to walk around the internet cafe and take a look at it at various times every day. This morning, as usual, she got up and took a stroll. She was standing outside the gate, breathing in the fresh air and twisting her waist, when she saw a person crossing the road and heading straight for Happy Internet Cafe.

When he reached the door, he smiled slightly at Chen Guo.

Chen Guo saw that this person was probably in his early thirties, and looked shrewd and capable. Someone like this didn't look like the type to be hanging out in an internet cafe early in the morning. She guessed that he probably had some urgent business that required a computer.

Chen Guo pondered, and returned a polite smile. Unexpectedly, the person then opened his mouth and said, "Is Ye Qiu here?"

"Ah!" Chen Guo didn't react for a moment, staring blankly at the person. Suddenly, she felt that this person looked a little familiar. Was he a professional player? Chen Guo quickly went through her mental roster, but couldn't remember who he was.

"Is he here?" Seeing Chen Guo's daze, the person asked again.

"Oh, yes, he's here. Come with me." Chen Guo nodded and led the person upstairs. The person was looking for Ye Qiu. She wasn't Ye Qiu's anything, so she didn't feel that she had the right to ask questions.

As a result, when they reached the top of the stairs, they saw the door open and Ye Xiu was walking out with a cigarette in his mouth. He paused when he saw Chen Guo and the person behind Chen Guo.

"He's looking for you." Chen Guo stepped aside and introduced him.

Ye Xiu's expression didn't change, he just nodded, then opened the door and gestured for the person to come in.

The person also nodded, and entered the room with a smile. Chen Guo followed, and didn't stand on ceremony with Ye Xiu. She immediately asked curiously, "Who is this person? He looks a bit familiar, I think I should know him!"

"The boss of Excellent Era." Ye Xiu smiled and went into the room.