Chapter 1 The Calm

The Happy Internet Cafe had returned to peace by the time the team returned.

In the days immediately following the Challenger League, reporters and players alike swarmed, all hoping to catch a glimpse of something, but the protagonists were nowhere to be found. Now that the playoffs had begun, the reporters naturally wouldn't miss this annual event, and the players couldn't keep hanging around the internet cafe indefinitely, so they gradually dispersed.

After leaving Excellent Era, Ye Xiu and the others didn't come to Happy Internet Cafe either. In fact, ever since renting the house in the Shanglinyuan residential area, only Chen Guo had come to the internet cafe much. Even Ye Xiu and Tang Rou's former positions at the internet cafe had long been filled by newcomers Chen Guo had hired; they had all devoted themselves wholeheartedly to Glory.

But now, Chen Guo felt that the house in Shanglinyuan was no longer big enough.

The two-story row house had the lower level designated as the training room, and all the rooms on the upper level were used as bedrooms, two people per room. At first, Chen Guo thought this would be sufficient, but now it seemed that she had underestimated the composition of a team.

Nowadays, the players were only the most crucial part. To maintain combat strength, the guild and the technical department, the two departments known as the team's left and right arms, were indispensable.

Wu Chen was now completely dedicated to Happy's guild affairs, and Tian Qi and the others, whom he had met in the tenth server, originally didn't want to enter the Heavenly Domain again. However, after seeing how promising Team Happy was, they were tempted and were preparing to complete the challenge missions and enter the Heavenly Domain to contribute to the team's growth.

However, Tian Qi and the others could only be considered amateur assistants. Currently, Happy only had Wu Chen managing the guild full-time. But this team would definitely grow. No professional team's guild office only had the guild leader working alone. In terms of numbers, this department would probably be the largest group in a club, with full-time and part-time staff. However, because their work was within the game, many of them didn't come to the club to work. But whether they worked at the club or not, they were all on the club's staff, either full-time or part-time, and the number was considerable.

As for the technical department, it was a highly confidential department, and working within the club was imperative. Therefore, although the number of people in this department was far smaller than the guild department, they all needed to work inside the club.

Happy didn't have such a large organization yet, but if it continued to develop, these would inevitably need to be established. Counting this way, the row house in Shanglinyuan was, of course, not nearly enough.

Rent another one?

Chen Guo was already thinking about how to solve this problem when Ye Xiu brought someone back.

"Guan Rongfei, the core God of Excellent Era's technical department," Ye Xiu introduced Guan Rongfei to Chen Guo.

"Hello, welcome!" Chen Guo took the initiative to shake his hand, extremely excited. Of course, she knew that Ye Xiu had brought this person here for more than just a tour.

"Hello." Guan Rongfei greeted Chen Guo casually, not even asking for Chen Guo's identity. He turned to Ye Xiu and asked, "When do we start? Where's my computer?"

"Uh, over there." Ye Xiu also looked around the hall, finally pointing out a location for Guan Rongfei. Chen Guo had set up a training room with 12 computers in a circle. If Su Mucheng was added to Happy now, and Chen Guo often needed to occupy one, there was only one vacant computer left. This vacant computer was immediately assigned to Guan Rongfei by Ye Xiu.

"Oh." Guan Rongfei responded and quickly walked towards the computer. When he arrived, he saw three computers, and the person sitting in the middle didn't even look at him.

"My name is Guan Rongfei," Guan Rongfei introduced himself.

"Mo Fan." The person didn't turn his head, only giving his name.

Then, Guan Rongfei sat down and turned on the computer, completely ignoring Mo Fan's response. The two of them sat together without any interaction, each busy with their own things.

The first thing Guan Rongfei did after turning on the computer was to connect his portable hard drive, then he searched for files, muttering "This one is okay," "This one isn't," as he skillfully operated the keyboard and mouse.

Chen Guo had already followed him, and she saw that when Guan Rongfei said "This one is okay" for a file, he would copy it to the computer, and those that were "This one isn't" were deleted on the spot.

"Why aren't these okay?" Chen Guo couldn't help but ask.

"These are under a confidentiality agreement and can't be used anymore," Guan Rongfei said.

"Ah?" Chen Guo didn't quite understand.

"It's the technical department's confidentiality agreement," Ye Xiu came over to explain.

Technical department employees were definitely required to sign confidentiality agreements, otherwise, what secrets would the guild's Silver equipment have? One person jumping ship would take away a lot of information.

Personnel turnover was inevitable, hence the need to sign confidentiality agreements. However, confidentiality agreements might not completely prevent one's own data from being used by other companies, but at least it wouldn't be so blatant. As for finding loopholes and skirting the edges, it still happened from time to time. But at least so far, nothing had been so excessive as to be intolerable and lead to court.

Guan Rongfei started working without saying a word as soon as he arrived, and his enthusiasm was startling to Chen Guo. What kind of treatment would this... core God of Excellent Era's technical department need to be supported?

In recent days, Chen Guo had been preoccupied with these particularly practical issues. But to say that she still had a blank mind would be underestimating Boss Chen. During the days she stayed in City B with Yizhan, Chen Guo very humbly sought advice from Lou Guan Ning on team management matters. Lou Guan Ning even gathered Yizhan's actual management team to help Chen Guo analyze Happy's situation.

In the opinion of the professional team, Happy's situation was very good.

After defeating Excellent Era and entering the Alliance professional circle, no new team would receive such widespread attention. Would Team Happy not be able to get sponsorship in the new season? In their opinion, this was impossible. Happy wouldn't even need to go out looking for sponsorship; it would come to them.

In particular, Excellent Era was likely to be dismantled and disbanded, which was actually quite beneficial to Happy's development. Excellent Era's sponsors in the city, if they still valued the publicity from Glory, were likely to directly transfer their sponsorship to Happy. This kind of local sponsorship also had the purpose of building a regional reputation. Because Glory was also a very popular competitive sport, and the winning team was a source of pride for the entire city. Supporting a local team was naturally beneficial to one's own foundation in the local area.

Yizhan told Chen Guo a lot of things, and Chen Guo was determined to learn this time, and she had to figure out everything she didn't understand. After a few days, she gained a lot. Although she was still thinking about things like treatment, she finally felt at ease. According to the professionals at Yizhan, Happy was now a surefire profit project.

"What if we win the championship?" Chen Guo asked such a question at the time.

For a moment, Yizhan's professionals looked at each other. After a long while, one of the bespectacled men pushed up his glasses and said, "If something like that really happened, I think that would be what you call a huge profit..."

So after returning from City B, Chen Guo was full of ambition, and after returning, she thought about how to further improve the training environment. Now that Guan Rongfei had been brought back, it was really time to make changes. All 12 computers were occupied, and where would anyone else be placed? What's more, it wasn't appropriate for the team, guild, and technical department to all sit together! Technical work like Guan Rongfei's probably needed quiet, right? And the guild department would definitely be shouting a lot in the game, right?

After making this decision, Chen Guo had been thinking about some ideas, and now that she saw it was time to discuss them, she went to find Ye Xiu.

"Wait a minute, I'll give this to him first." Ye Xiu was organizing the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella's information for Guan Rongfei. It wasn't that he was so anxious, but Guan Rongfei, after finishing with the portable hard drive, began to urge Ye Xiu with his eyes.

"It's nothing, I just think, we're officially a team now, and we'll probably have more and more people later, so this place might not be suitable. I have two ideas now, listen to them," Chen Guo said.

"Yeah, tell me." Ye Xiu nodded while continuing to transfer files.

"One, which I personally prefer and feel closer to, is to knock down the entire second floor of Happy. In the future, the second floor won't be used for internet cafe business, and it will be completely converted into our training center. After visiting Yizhan, I think that just a training ground, plus some space for the guild and technical department, should be enough," Chen Guo said.

"Yeah, not bad," Ye Xiu nodded.

"The other one is to properly find a place to work, rent three or five rooms, and call it our base. I just think that seems a little unlike us," Chen Guo said.

"You mean let us train the game in an office building?" Ye Xiu said.

"It's not very like us, right?" Chen Guo said.

"It's too unlike us!" Ye Xiu said.

"Then we can only do the first one. We can't build a building right now!" Chen Guo said.

"The first one is very good. Do you know? When we first started, the place where the team trained together was actually an internet cafe. Now we're just walking the same road again. But back then, we didn't have such good conditions; at most, the internet cafe would let us have a row of machines for our exclusive use," Ye Xiu said.

"Oh... then speaking of which, what did that Tao Xuan do before?" Chen Guo asked.

"Him? He was also an internet cafe owner..." Ye Xiu said.