The Tycoon God of Online Gaming - Chapter 22
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Chapter 22: King Of All Assassins, Kill The Commander!
Translator: Larbre Studio
Editor: Larbre Studio
In the morning, browsing the forum was very necessary to many Heaven players. When the game had just launched, many players would upload their insights from playing. Some of the ways to play the game may have also been inspired from there to some extent.
On the forum on Dayan nation in Huaxia district, one particular post attracted numerous players to click on it, as this was a post to recruit people. Furthermore, it offered to give a salary as well. To many players, having the opportunity to play their beloved game and earn money at the same time was something that they very much yearned for.
Hence the rate of replies for this post was very high, and it was flooded with many people who were trying to flatter and fawn over the original uploader of this post.
The content of this post was this: 1. Players should choose Dayan nation as their place of belonging. 2. Occupation has to be assassin. 3. Player has to spend 24 hours playing the game daily. 4. Those with experiences of being a professional player will be recruited first. 5. Must own your own gaming helmet. 6. Deadline for application ends when I finish my lunch. Generous wage and excellent conditions, limited places, interested applicants can email your personal resume over, the email address is…
The email address was Chu You’s personal email. After posting this, Chu You went out to have his breakfast.
In an old and shabby residential building in a certain city, inside a seemingly tiny dirty and messy room, a youth sat before his computer desk. His skin was pale to the point where he looked sick. His long black hair reeked of greasy filth, appearing like he had not bathed for a few days.
The most valuable thing in his room was the computer before him. At this moment, his long and slender finger grabbed the coke from the table, which he drank a mouthful of.
After that, he continued to browse the trendiest gaming forum at the moment, Heaven, with a dull look in his eyes.
As an ex professional player, this young man had attained much glory, especially in those large-scale RPG games. Many people had heard of his respectful title and seen his passionate and stirring livestream videos before.
He used to be the idol in everyone’s eyes.
But now, after disappearing from the world of online gaming for a few years, he had gotten to such a state.
Ah. He sighed. In reality, he was currently very cash tight. This sort of circumstance had gone on for two years. If not, he would have already bought the necessity: the gaming helmet of Heaven!
An able-bodied youth could always take on any part time job, save up for half a year… would he still be unable to afford the most basic gaming helmet?
This did not make sense in any way, however, the world was so large. Nothing was too strange to exist. These sort of things actually happened to him in real life.
Whenever he got reminded of this, the eyes of this youth became swift and fierce instantly. The reason why he had gotten to this state was all because of the studio he previously belonged to, as he was rigidly bound to his so-called contract. There was no way to terminate his contract. If he broke the contract, he would have to pay an extremely hefty compensation.
After going through the struggles that any ordinary person would find hard to imagine, he finally broke off his employment relationship with that damned studio. After that, he went around to look for a job, only to be met with rejections everywhere. He was going to hit 30 years old this year. His precious youth had been dedicated solely to gaming. He did not know anything other than gaming.
At this moment, his eyes fixated on a post. Following this, he used his mouse to click ‘enter.’
This very post was the post that Chu You uploaded on the Heaven Dayan nation forum.
Headlines of posts like these…this youngster had already seen a few similar ones before. The difference was, the other posts for recruiting all had a purpose. They were purely meant to fulfill the quota by relying on the reputation of the union to attract average players to join, which further helped to grow the strength of the union. In unions like these, many players did not really have a sense of belonging, and their cohesion was weak. Usually, the average players would not even receive a share after exploding the equipment of the BOSS.
It was simply wishful thinking to think that joining such unions was going to sustain your livelihood.
With unions like these, the turnover rate of the members was too high. Normally when a player saw the moderator as an eyesore, he would leave the union straightaway. Or if the moderator spoke to the player with a slight hint of an unpleasant tone, without further ado, exit! Without any restraints, and solely relying on the charisma of the union’s leader, as well as the pretty girls in the union and other factors, this was highly effective to hold back any players in average games.
However, in Heaven, these unions couldn’t do so. They might still be able to survive at the beginning stage of the game, however, as the game progressed on, with the increase of experience and the growing of insights, these unions who failed to prioritize the interest of the remaining players would all collapse!
He casually tossed the mouse in his hand, the arrow landing right on the post. He then clicked in.
A short while later, he furrowed his brows. However, a glint of light flashed past his eyes, as the other party was not any studio, but a nouveau riche.
Although this post came with conditions, he found the first four conditions to be his huge forte, but the last condition required him to be equipped with his own gaming helmet. However, this was not too hard for him to deal with.
Following which, he relaxed his brows, calmly finishing up his personal resume, and then sending his information over. He believed that when the other party saw the information of his gaming history, he would definitely offer to sponsor a gaming helmet to him. Although this model of game was different from all the games he played in the past.
However, he didn’t see what was wrong with that, as with his understanding, he could determine that the other party was a nouveau riche. That was because the details of the recruitment were extremely simple. It did not look like the recruitment model of a studio. Furthermore, studios required applicants to make a trip down to the location of the studio. And the important point was that the nouveau riche did not make such a request. With the addition of the condition of a generous pay, and the tone of speech at the end, he was more or less sure that the other party was a nouveau riche.
After finishing what he had to do, now, as he had already done all he could, the outcome lay with Heaven’s decision. It depended on when that nouveau riche had the time to look at his information.
Chu You was indeed checking up on the emails he received at the moment, and after settling his breakfast and lunch, he sat back in front of the computer. What he did not think of was the fact that within such a short period of time, his mailbox had actually received over 300 emails, all job applicants from the game.
Chu You had no choice but to hasten his pace of reviewing, filtering out those who were not from Dayan nation. His time was precious now. Although the beginning of Heaven in this lifetime was extremely successful, there was still this sense of urgency within him. Chu You understood the talents of some players within the country all too well. They were practically the darlings of heaven’s law in the game. It was as though they could smell the rules of the game with just a sniff, and adapt quickly. The scariest were those with innate luck.
These players were really like the main characters of game novels!
At the thought of this, a tinge of swift fierceness flashed before Chu You.
Damn it, provoke me again in this lifetime and my surname will not be Chu if I do not teach you guys a lesson!
Reverting back from his thoughts, Chu You still understood very well that his actual enemy was those in power who caused the death of his parents. Only by getting rid of them all would Chu You be able to continue playing happily.
Continuing to review…
The youth stared blankly into space out of immense boredom. It had already been half an hour, and his mailbox was still empty. Could it be that the nouveau riche really did not see the potential in him?
The youth suddenly showed a tinge of panic…was he overly confident previously?
Chu You chose 30 people, and he wanted to select 20 people from these 30 people to form his own intelligence contingent.
To someone contending for supremacy, what was number one in games, especially big staggering masterpieces such as Heaven?
The answer was: Intelligence
Only when he grasped the first hand information could he strike first to destroy his opponents.
At the moment, Chu You only wanted to expand his intelligence contingent within the boundaries of Firefly village. The rest could wait until he started his own gang.
Sending all 30 of them a chain email meant that he wanted to conduct a video interview.
There were already 25 people who replied to him instantly, and after going through upgrading and modification, this email website could already work like a video chat software, as it could switch to video mode directly.
In order to keep his original features hidden, Chu You turned off the webcam facing him, so that Chu You could see the other party, but the other party couldn’t see Chu You.
Hence, Chu You interviewed the first person.
Chu You: “Why can’t I see you?”
First person: “Boss, I’m sorry, my webcam is ruined.”
Pam! Chu You immediately switched off the video interlink, proceeding on to choose the second person.
Chu You: “If I want you to die, will you be willing to die?”
The second person tried to bootlick and win him over: “Boss, rest assured, no matter if it’s scaling through a mountain of swords or plunging into a sea of flames, I won’t even bat an eye.”
Chu You: “Uh, my conditions are very simple. Help me explore the unknown territories, and I’ll let you know the specific details then. $50-$200 for valuable information, $500 if you discover the hiding spot of the BOSS, $300 for a treasure chest, $1000 for your basic weekly salary. Payment weekly. Are you satisfied with that?”
Second person: “Boss, I’m extremely satisfied, I want to start straightaway.”
Chu You: “Uh, you have to submit unconditionally anytime to the mission I hand out to you, can you do that?”
Second person: “Big Chief, I guarantee that I can.”
Chu You: “Failure to accomplish the mission will result in a deduction from your pay. In a week, if your valuable information is lower than 5 that means you’re fired immediately, do you understand?”
The second person sweated profusely at this point: “Boss, I understand.”
Chu You: “Very well, send me your username in the game, someone will add you later, if you perform well, I’ll promote you to an important position!”
Second person: “Thank you, big boss, thank you, big boss.”
Chu You: “You may go!”
…
According to the question and answer pattern above, Chu You selected 18 people from the 30 applicants. He was still short 2 more.
Hence, Chu You randomly chose 2 more off the stack of namelists from the email.
At this moment, the youth who was highly nervous stared at his mailbox without taking his eyes off it once, his mouth mumbling to himself.
All of a sudden, his face lit up with joy, because the reply from the other party appeared in his mailbox.
Interview?
The youth looked puzzled, but he did not think too much, because when the other party sent the video interlink, the youth instantly accepted it.
Chu You: “I want you to die…”
The youth immediately broke out in cold sweat, not expecting the first sentence of the other party to expect him to sacrifice unconditionally. Did he not see his personal information? The youth roared internally.
Seeing the hesitation in the youth’s eyes, Chu You slowly shifted his arrow towards the ‘X’ symbol. Once he pressed that, then the video would be closed, and the nouveau riche would leave.
At this crucial moment, as if a ray of deities’ blessings fell upon the youth..
The youth’s expression suddenly became fierce, shouting loudly, “I’m willing to die!!”
Chu You nodded his head satisfyingly, thinking that though the youth was a bit slow in the head, his comprehension skill was not bad. After asking a series of routine questions, he thought that this man was worth hiring. The last place was counted as filled up then.
Chu You: “Send me your username in the game, someone will add you in the game later.”
Chu You was preparing to select a leader among these 20 people. This leader would manage the remaining 19 people, and only this leader could directly communicate with Chu You, as well as add each other directly in the game.
At this moment, the youth seemed to look at the pitch black screen in silent anger, slowly spitting out, “Boss, I do not have a gaming helmet.”
Chu You’s body stopped moving momentarily, with a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. He was preparing to light it up.
“Why waste my time if you don’t have a gaming helmet?” Chu You suddenly found this person interesting, following up by asking this question.
Feeling like all his efforts had just gone down the drain, the youth’s tone flared up slightly. “Boss, I hope you can take a look at my personal resume which I filled up. In there are my past achievements from the past few years.”
Chu You braced himself. “Who doesn’t know how to talk big? How do I know if the things you filled it up with are true? I don’t have the time to figure out if they are true.”
The youth fell silent, in the video, Chu You saw the desolation of an expert in the youth’s eyes. At this moment, Chu You felt that he could vaguely see his past self in him.
Quite bafflingly, Chu You decided to give the other party a chance.
“Since you said that you achieved a lot of glory in the past, then your reputation should be quite well-known. Tell me, what is your name?”
“I’m Lin Dong.”
Chu You fell into a huge rage. “What f***ing Dong…I’ve never even heard it once before!”
This got on the youth’s nerves as he violently rebutted, “That is my real name, I’m called Kill Leader, the Kill Leader from Divine Territory, the Kill Leader from Dawn, the Kill Leader from Belief.” The youth roared out the games that were all once very popular in one breath. All these games had something in common, and that was this particular player with the ID ‘Kill Leader’ who was very well-known, deeply adored by many professional players with the assassin occupation.
“Then, are you going to go by Kill Leader in this game Heaven as well?”
“If no one has snatched this username yet, I will definitely snatch back my rightful title.”
In his past life, Chu You had heard of this name before in Heaven, but he had only heard of it before, hence he had no vivid impression. When he heard of this name last time, Chu You was having a discussion about the top ten assassins in the Huaxia district of Heaven with others, fighting for some expenditure to hire a top-notch assassin to assassinate a particular character from the rival group.
At this moment, a leader from a certain union said, “All the top ten assassins from the Huaxia district have false reputations; they don’t deserve their titles. The real expert assassins will not appear on the chart, as they find it disdainful to care about the rankings.”
Chu You questioned closely, “Then where do we find the real expert assassins?”
The other party answered, “To find the real expert assassins, you have to look for the assassins in the ‘Shadow Shrine.’”
‘Shadow Shrine’ was a place whose existence was extremely obscure to average players. It only appeared in the hearsay of upscale people. It was the top alliance organization for the assassin occupation in Heaven. It was absolutely hidden and powerful.