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Chapter 33 0032 [Schoolmate Delivers PHS to Your Door]

No. 2 Middle School has very old dormitories for boys and girls, with eight people living in a room, and the annual accommodation fee is only 120 yuan.

There are also newly built male and female apartments, where four people live in a room, with a private bathroom and washing machine. The annual accommodation fee is 720 yuan.

Tao Xue lives in a four-person girls' dormitory.

After dinner, Tao Xue went back to the apartment to get something, which was the pager she bought at noon.

The chubby girl in the same dormitory chewed some potato chips and said, "Xue Xiaomei, don't you have a cell phone? Why did you get a pager?"

"I bought it for someone else." Tao Xue explained.

The fat girl teased, "You bought it for your boyfriend, didn't you? Tell me the truth, which class is this boy from?"

"Let's talk later. I have to go do some work. Bye." Tao Xue was too lazy to say more to her and skipped out of the door in two or three steps.

She went straight to the classroom of Class 11 of Grade 3. When she reached the door, she stuck half of her head in to observe.

It's like being a thief.

"Excuse me, does anyone know where Chen Guiliang is?" Tao Xue walked to the front row and asked confidently.

It was still quite early and there were only about a dozen students in the classroom. Upon hearing this, they all looked towards Tao Xue.

Xu Haibo, who was doing a test, said, "He's probably doing laundry in the dormitory. What do you want to see him for?"

Tao Xue ran to the table in front of Xu Haibo and sat down. "It's urgent. Which dormitory does he live in?"

"This is the boys' dormitory, girls are not allowed to enter." Xu Haibo kindly reminded.

Tao Xue smiled and said, "Senior, please lead the way for me and give me something."

"Okay." Xu Haibo was also very curious about what this beautiful school girl was going to give to Chen Da Xia.

The two walked out of the classroom side by side and headed towards the boys' dormitory.

On the way, Xu Haibo asked, "What's your name, junior? You seem to have been to our classroom before."

Tao Xue said: "My name is Tao Xue, and I'm from Class 10 of Grade 11."

Xu Haibo glanced at the PHS box in her hand and asked, "Are you sending a PHS to Mr. Chen?"

"Oh, you figured it out." Tao Xue laughed.

Xu Haibo became more and more curious: "Are you familiar with him?"

Tao Xue thought about it carefully: "We are relatives."

My brother’s friend’s nephew is also a relative.

In terms of seniority, I am still his elder, so when we meet, let him call me aunt.

Haha, I’m a genius!

After chatting for a while, we arrived at the door of the boys' dormitory.

The dormitory building is built on a slope, with the main entrance located between the second and third floors. The staircase turns right after the entrance, with the third floor up and the second floor down.

The dormitory management office is on the second floor, and the dormitory manager can see people entering and leaving the gate just by looking up.

"You wait outside, I'll call out Hero Chen." Xu Haibo said, standing at the door of the dormitory building.

Tao Xue peeked into the dormitory management office downstairs and found an old man eating noodles, not paying any attention to the direction of the gate.

She tiptoed over and quickly went up to the third floor around the corner.

The dormitory manager didn't find out.

Tao Xue stood in the corridor on the third floor, patting her chest repeatedly.

So exciting!
Xu Haibo quickly followed: "How did you get in? If you get caught, you will be punished."

Tao Xue smiled like a little fox: "But we haven't been caught. Senior, please lead the way."

Xu Haibo could only take her to 302. They met a few boys along the way, and they all looked at them strangely.

Xu Haibo felt a little guilty, but also inexplicably proud, as if he was taking his girlfriend back to the dormitory.

Tao Xue kept looking around, and when she saw an open dormitory door, she looked inside curiously: "Wow, this is what the boys' dormitory looks like."

Xu Haibo was also curious about the girls' dormitory: "Is your girls' dormitory different?"

Tao Xue said, "I don't know. I live in a girls' dormitory, four people in a room...ah!"

Tao Xue screamed, but it was the dormitory she had just passed by, and there was a boy wearing only underwear inside.

She quickly covered her eyes.

Only then did Xu Haibo remember that some boys were very unrestrained.

Wearing underwear is already good enough. Some guys just take a shower and then go back to the dormitory from the laundry room without wearing anything.

Xu Haibo led Tao Xue to the door of Room 302 and said to her, "Don't go in yet."

"Oh." Tao Xue stood there waiting.

Xu Haibo pushed the dormitory door halfway open and shouted inside, "Those without clothes, put them on quickly! There are girls coming!"

Chen Guiliang is hanging clothes.

Liu Zhihong and Yang Hao are playing chess.

Xie Yang was lying on the bed reading a novel.

The other three were on the basketball court.

"Everyone's dressed," Xu Haibo said to Tao Xue after seeing the situation inside. "Come in, everything is fine."

"Dang-dang-dang!"

Tao Xue played accompaniment for her own entrance and even jumped into the dormitory.

The people inside looked confused.

Why are there girls coming in?
Chen Guiliang put away the clothesline and felt a headache when he saw the literary girl: "Why are you here?"

Xie Yang had no time to appreciate the novel, and sat up to watch the fun, feeling a little jealous: Hero Chen is so lucky in love, not even one month at the border is counted, but a pretty school girl has even followed him to the dormitory.

Liu Zhihong and Yang Hao stopped playing chess. They pretended to stare at the chessboard, but glanced at Tao Xue from time to time.

"Here you go," Tao Xue said proudly, handing over the PHS box. "I bought it myself this afternoon. Everything is already taken care of. You can use the credit inside as much as you want."

Chen Guiliang was confused: "Why did you buy me a PHS?"

Xu Haibo, Xie Yang, Liu Zhihong, and Yang Hao were all shocked by Tao Xue's words. A beautiful schoolgirl had chased to the boys' dormitory to give them a PHS, and she had even saved enough credit for Chen Guiliang to call whenever he wanted.

Outrageous!

Xie Yang twirled his hair, thinking: Is my hairstyle not cool enough? Why aren't any girls chasing me like this?

Tao Xue put the pager on the table: "My brother asked me to give it to you, saying it's inconvenient to contact you."

Chen Guiliang understood immediately: "Could your brother be Tao Chenggang?"

"clever."

Tao Xue snapped her fingers.

Chen Guiliang jokingly complained: "Your brother is quite stingy. He didn't even think of giving me a cell phone. The PHS signal is not good."

Tao Xue smiled and said, "You really don't consider yourself an outsider."

"Partners are not outsiders." Chen Guiliang has never been shy about taking advantage of others.

Tao Xue said, "Your cousin calls me 'Brother Gang'. Are you a generation younger than me?"

"If you say so, then so." Chen Guiliang didn't care.

"Then you should call me auntie, or you can call me auntie." Tao Xue took the opportunity to take advantage of her, she thought it was very interesting.

"Auntie Tao," Chen Guiliang actually called out, opened the box, took out his pager, and said, "If you're not afraid of shortening your life, just agree to it."

"Eh!"

Tao Xue agreed immediately and tried to figure out how to address Chen Guiliang: "Good boy... well, nephew?"

Chen Guiliang said, "Hello, Aunt Tao."

Tao Xue angrily corrected him: "It's not 'auntie', that sounds too ugly. It's 'auntie', it's 'auntie'!"

"Okay, Aunt Tao." Chen Guiliang deliberately made fun of her.

"cut!"

Tao Xue pouted.

When Xie Yang saw her cute look, he shouted "so cute" in his heart and felt that he was about to fall in love with someone else again.

Tao Xue said, "My brother asked you to call him. I saved his phone number at noon."

Chen Guiliang opened the address book and found two numbers saved.

One is marked Tao Chenggang and the other is marked Tao Xue.

Chen Guiliang left the dormitory building to make a phone call, firstly because the signal was better and secondly to avoid his roommates.

He tried to get as close as possible to the teachers' family quarters, where there was a PHS signal station.

Tao Xue followed him out quietly. Her heart was pounding with fear when she walked out the door, for fear that she would be caught red-handed by the dormitory manager.

Xie Yang also followed out of curiosity.

Xu Haibo went back to the classroom to do his homework.

Chen Guiliang made the call, but the signal was still a little poor: "Hello, Mr. Tao, thank you for your PHS."

"Haha, we're all friends, let's not talk about that," Tao Chenggang said with a laugh, probably in a good mood. "And don't call me Mr. Tao, just call me Brother Gang. As for your cousin, we three can discuss our own affairs."

"Okay, Brother Gang has the final say." Chen Guiliang looked at Tao Xue and deliberately emphasized the word "Brother Gang".

Tao Xue was indeed unhappy when she heard this. She snorted and sulked with her brother.

Tao Chenggang said: "We have hired someone to build the private server, but there was an accident with the dungeon."

"What accident?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Tao Chenggang explained in detail, "The dungeon map is fine. We can just copy other official maps and modify the monsters. However, the dungeon allows multiple players to enter, and it's isolated from the normal map. This requires enhanced interaction within the dungeon, synchronizing player status and monster behavior. First, we have to rent a slightly better server; second, we need to develop a dungeon manager."

"Is it difficult to develop a copy manager?" asked Chen Guiliang.

Tao Chenggang said, "I found a masterful engineer named Luo Xiaoping, a graduate student from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, who currently works for a state-owned enterprise. Luo Xiaoping also brought in a friend who graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. They asked for 30,000 yuan, but I negotiated it down to 12,000 yuan. They said the dungeon manager wasn't difficult to build, but the time I gave them was too short, and there was a risk of bugs. I asked them to work on it quickly, and once it was finished, I had someone repeatedly run the dungeon, and report any bugs they found to fix them."

"That's fine too," Chen Guiliang asked again, "Do you want to cooperate with internet cafes across the country?"

Tao Chenggang said, "We definitely have to cooperate. Those large-scale game forums all have internet cafe alliances, either overt or covert. 17173's internet cafe alliance is the largest, but since it's just been converted into a portal, it's not convenient for them to openly promote us. We can only contact them by posting online. The one with the most private internet cafe servers is 17577, and that's where we focus our promotion."

"How much commission does an Internet cafe usually take?" asked Chen Guiliang.

Tao Chenggang said: "It's not fixed. It depends on the situation."

He further explained, "Normally, internet cafe owners buy the private server architecture, set up their own servers, and sell the equipment to make money. But this time, we're not selling the architecture; we're just letting them install it in the internet cafes. The internet cafe owners weren't interested, and only a few network administrators contacted me."

"The network administrator makes pocket money by bypassing the boss?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Tao Chenggang said, "Yes. Network administrators often do this, helping private server operators install games in internet cafes. They're content with a few dozen yuan a day in commission. But they demand a very high share, some even asking for 30%."

"How much did you talk about?" asked Chen Guiliang.

Tao Chenggang said, "It's not fixed. For the highest commission, I offered 25%. There was nothing I could do; the other party wouldn't budge. For the lowest commission, I negotiated it down to 15%. Also, for the internet cafes in Longdu City, I contacted the owners directly."

"Do we need to go to each Internet cafe one by one?" asked Chen Guiliang.

Tao Chenggang laughed and said, "Have you forgotten that I own an internet cafe? Some big cities already have internet cafe associations, and Longdu City is also preparing one. Although the local internet cafe association hasn't been established yet, most internet cafe owners have already had drinks with each other."

Chen Guiliang asked: "How many Internet cafe owners are willing to cooperate?"

"Currently, there are 21 companies willing to cooperate, and I'm still making calls," Tao Chenggang added, "but they don't value the commissions and won't actively promote us. At most, they'll let the network administrators put up the private clothes, and even the commissions are earned by the network administrators themselves."

If it weren't for Tao Chenggang's approach, it would have been very difficult for Chen Guiliang to run a private server on his own and just cooperate with those Internet cafes.

Chen Guiliang thought for a moment and said, "Brother Gang, we can now promote this on major gaming forums."

"Promote now? I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money for the initial promotion." Tao Chenggang said.

Chen Guiliang explained, "It's not about paying forums for promotion. Instead, you organize people to post messages yourself. Don't directly promote the game at first. Instead, stand in the shoes of the gamers, complain about the various problems with the current private servers, and lambast Shanda's official Legend. Then, organize people to reply to the posts themselves, hype them up, and resonate with netizens. Then, using a bet, continue to stand in the players' shoes, vowing to create a private server that doesn't sell equipment. It wasn't until two days before the game went online that you paid the private server forums for promotion."

After thinking for a moment, Chen Guiliang added, "Oh right, after this post goes viral, we can live-broadcast the private server development progress every day. This will heighten the anticipation of potential players, as if this private server is their own creation! Um... development. We need to give them a sense of nurturing. Our private server is like their child growing up before their very eyes!"

"That's a good idea. You really have a lot of clever ideas," Tao Chenggang praised. "If we do this, we'll be like family with the players. We'll be the real fathers of the private server, and the players will be its godfathers. It's only natural for the godfather to pay to take care of his son."

"Haha, that's what I mean." Chen Guiliang likes to deal with smart people.

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