Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 418 First Recharge of One Million
"Deleted? That cost a million!" the young man offering to play with the game quickly said. "How about we list it on the Momo item trading website and sell it?"

Qin Fen stared coldly at the young man who was playing with her, and said willfully, "I don't like others using my things."

"Yes." The young man who was there to entertain the client immediately fell silent.

On January 18, 2003, a post on the Legend Forum attracted tens of thousands of viewers.

[The legendary top spender LLLLLLLL suddenly deleted his account, becoming a legend in the history of the game along with his Dragon Slayer sword.]

“LLLLL…” Inside the Momo Internet Cafe in Zhonghai, Qin Fen sat in a deluxe single room on the fourth floor, enjoying the fruit and desserts served by the waiter while changing the name of his newly purchased game character in the second server.

He only started using computers this year and is not proficient in typing for games at all, so he chooses names that are as simple as possible, such as QQQQQQ or LLLLLLL.

As a long-established server in the game "Primordial Era", the second server has attracted many players.

The account Qin Fen bought was level 50, the maximum level, and had a +10 Judgment Sword and a +8 War God set.

There are three sets of equipment in the first continent of the Primordial Era: the green Netherworld Set, the blue War God Set, and the purple Holy War Set. Once you collect a complete set, you can activate powerful hidden attributes.

In Zone 2, possessing the War God set already makes you a top-tier player.

Besides the Qin Fen account, they also bought more than a dozen other accounts that weren't very well equipped but were already level 50. These were all core members of a guild called Straw Hat Gang.

After the guild was broken up by the enemy, a group of people had nowhere to go but to sell their accounts and run to the new server.

The strongest alliance in the second region is called the Mad Blade Alliance, founded by Blood Drink Mad Blade, the number one warrior in the Primordial Era. All 99 official members and 40 honorary members of the Mad Blade Alliance are equipped with +8 sets of gear and +10 weapons. Their greatest strength is that they are extremely obedient to commands, and can hit exactly where they are told.

Because the guilds in the Primordial War Chronicles cannot form an alliance, even though all 31 guilds in the second district are consciously targeting the Mad Blade Alliance, once a battle breaks out, the number of people they accidentally kill is more than the number of people the Mad Blade Alliance kills. After several alliances, they can only fight each other.

The current situation in Zone 2 is one dominant team and four strong teams.

Yi Chao is the Mad Blade Alliance.

The four finalists are Legend of Rebirth, Hall of Heroes, Nalan Manor, and Pirate Legion.

If the four strongest guilds were to join forces, the Mad Blade Alliance would have to back down. However, each of the four guilds harbors its own ulterior motives and wants to annex the others to become a super guild that surpasses the Mad Blade Alliance. Amidst this infighting, the Mad Blade Alliance's dominant position remains unshakable.

[Buying Spirit Essence Pearls at a high price of 10 yuan each!]

[1 RMB = 5000 Gold Coins - Buying game currency long-term!]

[Straw Hat Gang is recruiting top players! Stable online presence earns you a weekly stipend of 100 yuan per person!]

As soon as Qin Fen and his group moved into District Two, they turned the prices in the district into a complete mess.

The price of the Spirit Pearl, which was originally 6 yuan each, has almost doubled.

They changed the exchange rate from 1 yuan = 7000 gold coins to 1 yuan = 5000 gold coins.

In less than two days, the Straw Hat Gang became famous in the second server, and the Honghuang War Chronicles forum was full of posts about the Straw Hat Gang and this mysterious tycoon.

"Just who is this 8L? Did the game company think the Mad Blade Alliance was too strong, so they sent someone in?"

"I think so. The Mad Blade Alliance is too arrogant and needs to be suppressed."

"You bunch of idiots think everyone's a shill. That's the legendary number one tycoon, 8L. He can delete an account worth over a million just like that. If you don't believe me, go check out the Legend forum."

Meanwhile, the Legend Forum was also abuzz with discussion.

"Have you heard? 8L went to the Primordial Era."

"8L is in the strongest second server of the Primordial Era, and he's probably going to take on the number one warrior of the Primordial Era."

"Awesome, that's definitely 8L's style. Let's go get an account and take a look."

"Let's go, let's go! 8L is the representative figure of our Legend. If he defeats the number one warrior of the Primordial Era, wouldn't that mean that our Legend is stronger than the Primordial Era?"

In an instant, the legendary player took on the role of 8L, transforming what was once an ordinary game into a battle between the number one legendary player and the number one player of the Primordial Era.

As night fell, Cheng Yi, who had just started his winter vacation, received a call from overseas.

He knew who it was without even looking.

"Cheng Yi, did you arrange for someone to be a shill in Zone 2?" Chen Zhi's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Cheng Yi smiled helplessly and said, "How could I have time to arrange shills for you? My dear Chairman Chen, I've been so busy these past few days since the university is on holiday that I haven't even turned on my computer for days."

Chen Zhi asked suspiciously, "That guy really wasn't arranged by you?"

"Who is it?" Cheng Yi really didn't know what had happened.

These past few days, with Handong University on holiday, a mountain of things to deal with—the shared computer lab, the campus network—has piled up, almost driving him to the brink of collapse. Since the release of the enhanced equipment feature in Honghuang War Chronicles, Cheng Yi has only occasionally checked the financial reports and the number of online players.

The university break this time did not have a significant impact on the game "Primordial War Chronicles".

Because Momo Internet Cafes have spread to every prefecture-level city in the country, even during holidays, these college students can occasionally play at Momo Internet Cafes for a while.

Although it didn't have a significant impact on Honghuang Zhanji, it had a huge impact on Xiaonei.com.

The daily active users of Renren.com dropped directly from 50 to just over 10.

This is also why Renren.com was renamed from Xiaonei.com in its previous life, in order to avoid being influenced by universities.

Once college students are on vacation, few people pay attention to Renren.com anymore; they are more interested in games, entertainment, music, television, and so on.

Chen Zhi said, "The name is strange, something like LLLL. They keep driving up prices. The price of enhancement was already very high. According to the previous enhancement prices, enhancing a piece of jewelry to +16 would cost over 100,000, enhancing a piece of clothing to +200,000, and enhancing a piece of weapon to +800,000. Now, with their price gouging, the cost has increased by another 30%."

"How many L's?" Cheng Yi was taken aback.

Chen Zhi said, "I didn't count carefully either, six or eight, why are you concerned about this?"

"It's nothing, I was just curious that someone would choose such a strange name." Cheng Yi laughed, "Did a rich player suddenly appear on the server, and you got a little scared?"

"Scared? Are you kidding me? As long as he's not a shill, just watch how I deal with him." Chen Zhi hung up the phone after saying that.

Since his defeat to Cheng Yi, Chen Zhi has been in Southeast Asia for a year. During this year, he has been mostly in a relaxed state, spending most of his time playing games in his club.

It wasn't that Chen Zhi lacked self-control, but rather that he understood one thing very well.

If he makes moves in Southeast Asia, he will truly be out of the running for the Lianjiang Group.

Their business in Southeast Asia is gambling. Once this industry grows large, illegal activities inevitably occur, such as setting up "pig butchering" scams, luring wealthy Chinese to Southeast Asia to exploit them. To get these wealthy individuals to recoup their losses, many casinos will stop at nothing. If someone dies, Chen Zhi will never be able to return to China.

Knowing this, Chen Zhi started a "laissez-faire" approach as soon as he arrived in Southeast Asia. The eight casinos he was in charge of remained lukewarm, and he didn't even hire junket operators or allow domestic tourists to enter the casinos. He adopted a very laid-back approach.

The senior management of Lianjiang Group had all witnessed Chen Zhi's actions.

Following their previous practice, they had replaced Chen Zhi, who had been deliberately slacking off, as early as six months ago.

But if someone were to replace Chen Zhi, then Chen Zhi would need to return to China, which would be exactly what Chen Zhi wanted.

Chen Zhi is a very capable person. Many of the uncles and elders in Lianjiang Group like Chen Zhi. Now that Lianjiang Internet Cafe has just started to improve, it is the best time for steady development. If Chen Zhi comes back and disrupts things, it would be a loss.

Therefore, no matter how much Chen Zhi slacks off, the senior management of Lianjiang Group turns a blind eye and pretends not to see it.

Over the course of the year, the relationship between Chen Zhi and Cheng Yi became more complex, subtly shifting between rivalry and friendship.

Cheng Yi actually admires Chen Zhi quite a bit. Chen Zhi is the kind of person who is extremely suitable for expanding territory. He has a kind of wild and adventurous spirit, and he is also very smart.

However, he shared similar thoughts with the senior management of Lianjiang Group; he also did not want Chen Zhi to return to China unless Chen Zhi was willing to join the group.

"Was Chen Zhi talking about 8L just now?" Cheng Yi muttered to himself, and dialed the number of Xu Yutang, the head of the operations department of Momo Games.

"President Cheng," Xu Yutang spoke first.

"Manager Xu, what's going on in Zone Two?" Cheng Yi asked directly.

Xu Yutang laughed and said, "Nothing much has happened. It's just that quite a few legendary players have come to the second district, probably more than 400. They all came with the same letter."

"His name has eight L's?" Cheng Yi asked.

“Yes, it’s 8 Ls.” Xu Yutang said, “This player is too rich. He has bought up all the materials in the entire second district.”

"It really was him." Cheng Yi was slightly surprised.

This player had made a name for himself in the legends of his past life, but no one ever knew his identity.

Because 8L rarely types or chats in the game, many people have speculated that he is a shill for Shengda.

Some people inferred from the fact that 8L rarely types and chats that 8L must be an older, successful person who is not good at typing.

"Where is his IP address?" Cheng Yi asked again.

“From Zhonghai.” Xu Yutang immediately replied, “I heard he has a high reputation in Legend. This time he deleted his account and came here, and many Legend players have come here because of his reputation. Now the second server is overcrowded, and you have to queue to enter the game.”

"If we make good use of it, this could be a great opportunity," Cheng Yi said with a smile.

Xu Yutang's tone was slightly excited as he said, "Furthermore, he recharged one million Chinese Yuanbao yesterday, breaking our record for the highest single recharge in Honghuang Zhanji, and even breaking the record for the highest single recharge in the domestic game industry."

"One million?" Cheng Yi was not surprised by this number.

After the Legend game introduced pay-to-win elements, this player 8L spent nearly 100 million RMB on in-game purchases. The only players who can rival him are Feng Zhong Zhui Feng from Tian Long Ba Bu and Zhong Yuan Bao Tu from Zheng Tu.

Upon realizing that 8L had arrived in the Primordial Era, Cheng Yi's mind immediately began to race.

We need to plan this carefully. If we plan it properly, it won't be difficult to recruit all the legendary wealthy players.

Since there are no pay-to-win elements in the current Legend of Mir, these rich players staying in Legend of Mir would only be a waste of resources.

As the saying goes, money makes the world go round, and in the past few days, the Straw Hat Gang's momentum has reached an unstoppable level.

Legendary players flocked to the second server, snapping up all the characters for sale, even level 30+ alt accounts.

At this point, the popularity of the second server was no less than when it first opened a year ago.

The rampant price gouging by 8L and the rise of the Straw Hat Gang finally angered Bloodthirsty Mad Blade, the leader of the Mad Blade Alliance.

Under the orders of Bloodthirsty Blade, the two affiliated guilds of the Mad Blade Alliance, the Embroidered Uniform Guard and Wild City, officially declared war on the Straw Hat Gang.

Since their rise to power, the Straw Hat Gang has occupied the first level of the Demon Cave for leveling up and farming for treasures.

The continent of Dragon City has three maps: the mine, the demon cave, and the wormhole.

The mines are the most profitable places, but also the most competitive. They have always been dominated by one superpower and four strong players, and the two sides fight almost every day to compete for ownership of the mines.

The drop rate in the Demon Cave is neither high nor low, making it suitable for developing industries. More than a dozen guilds have long been based here. These guilds occasionally clash, but they all know to restrain themselves to prevent things from escalating to the point of no return.

The final wormhole has the lowest drop rate, making it suitable for small, newly established guilds.

Now, Qin Fen's Straw Hat Gang has entered the second tier of guilds in the entire region. The members of the Straw Hat Gang are leveling up in the Demon Cave, and few guilds are willing to provoke them.

At nine o'clock in the morning, more than seventy members of the Imperial Guards had gathered at the entrance of the Demon Cave.

Members of the Imperial Guard were responsible for guarding the entrance to the Demon Cave to prevent the dead Straw Hat Gang members from providing reinforcements, while members of the Wild City were responsible for searching for and killing Straw Hat Gang members inside the Demon Cave.

Their teamwork was so seamless that the Straw Hat crew members, caught off guard, were powerless to resist and were driven back to Dragon City one by one by the Wild City members.

"Young Master Qin, two guilds have been killing our people." At the Momo Internet Cafe in Zhonghai, the young man who was playing games with Qin Fen immediately stood up and said this as Qin Fen entered the fourth floor.

"Kill our people? What guild?" Qin Fen asked.

The young man who was playing with the player said, "It seems to be an affiliated guild of the Mad Blade Alliance, called Embroidered Guard and Wild City. They have quite a few members, with more than 140 people in the two guilds combined."

"More than 140 people?" Qin Fen was indeed a little apprehensive.

If this were in the game Legend, over 140 people wouldn't stand a chance. No matter how powerful your equipment is, once those 140 people get together, they're unstoppable.

But this is the Primordial Era...

Qin Fen silently turned on his usual computer and quickly entered the game.

His account is now at the maximum level; all he needs to do is get the equipment.

In just one week, his weapon was upgraded from +10 to +13.

Now it's time to test the power of this +13 weapon.

He planned to face these 140 people alone.

(End of this chapter)