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Chapter 34 0033 [Aunt Tao is very happy]

Tao Xue was not interested in playing games and squatted under the camphor tree to poke ants for fun.

She picked up a branch and started fighting with an ant.

When the ant crawled out a few centimeters, she used a branch to block its way, scaring the ant so much that it had to change direction.

Little devil, so bad!
Xie Yang pricked up his ears and eavesdropped on Chen Guiliang's conversation.

This guy's great ambition at this time was not to take the civil service exam and become an official, but to make games and become the richest man in China.

Chen Guiliang continued, "I've been thinking about this carefully over the past few days. 'Legend' already has a weapon upgrade system, so we can start with that. There's no need to add any new features. Players can use the jewelry guaranteed to drop from dungeons to upgrade their weapons. This will solve the problem of wealthy players repeatedly grinding dungeons and getting excess, outlandish jewelry, and increase their enthusiasm for continuing."

Tao Chenggang praised: "Not bad, not bad!"

Unfortunately, the official Legend server hasn't launched features like drilling holes for equipment and adding gems. This kind of gameplay requires adding new features, which is technically difficult.

Chen Guiliang continued, "To increase the immersion of the game, we can add a dialogue with the veterans in the dungeon to enhance the player's worldview. For example, during the battle between good and evil, a mysterious force of the void invades. Those dungeons are all projections of the real world within the cracks of the abyss. All the perverse equipment that's hard to name can be prefixed with 'Abyss' or 'Void'."

Tao Chenggang laughed heartily: "I've never seen anyone making up stories about running a private server."

Chen Guiliang said: "I have a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder."

"Okay, let's do as you say. It's just adding a dialogue anyway." Tao Chenggang said.

Chen Guiliang reminded him again, "Remember, our promotional focus is: no equipment sales, everything depends on playing. You and Brother Yang should write an article recounting your experiences playing Legend over the years, sharing your joys, sorrows, friendships, and so on. Ideally, include all the major events in Legend."

"Is it that propaganda article?" Tao Chenggang asked.

Chen Guiliang said, "Yes, the more sensational the better. Once you've written it, send it to my email address. I'll polish it and then post it on the forum."

The two continued to communicate for more than ten minutes before finally ending the call.

Chen Guiliang also sent his email address via text message.

He had applied for this email address at his cousin's house before, and he had long forgotten the email address he used in high school in his previous life.

As soon as Chen Guiliang put the PHS into his pocket, Xie Yang couldn't wait to ask, "What's going on? Are you doing private service with someone?"

"You also know about private servers?" Chen Guiliang asked back.

Xie Yang said, "I'm a veteran Legend player. How could I not know about private servers? Every internet cafe has a private Legend server, but they're incredibly boring. Take Huayu Internet Cafe for example, the highest-level map is only the Zuma Temple."

This so-called "Huayu Internet Cafe" is of course a knockoff and not a real chain brand.

Xie Yang often went to Huayu Internet Cafe, where the computers were the worst, so the fees were cheap, with membership fees at only 1.5 yuan per hour.

The private server for Legend of Mir 2 in Huayu Internet Cafe was a free, rubbish-looking server installed directly inside the cafe by a network administrator. It was a rip-off, and some people were playing it, even paying to buy equipment. The network administrator was taking advantage of the situation to make some extra cash.

"Why are you using a private server with someone else?" Xie Yang asked.

Chen Guiliang simply said, "I know an internet cafe owner and I provided him with some game ideas."

Xie Yang asked, "Do you make money?"

"Maybe it can make money." Chen Guiliang didn't say anything definite.

Xie Yang said excitedly: "Take me with you. I don't want any money, I just want to participate."

He felt that as long as he participated, even if it was a big thing, it didn't matter whether he made money or not.

Chen Guiliang smiled and said, "I'll call you when it goes online. I'll give you some special equipment, and you can act as a shill in the game, guiding those wealthy people to top up their accounts. Or, you can help post comments on the forum to promote it."

Hearing this, Xie Yang became even more excited: "Don't worry, I know what to do!"

Chen Guiliang reminded him, "Don't tell anyone about this. After all, running a private server is illegal. Don't spread the news in class or in the dormitory."

"I know, and I won't tell anyone." Xie Yang patted his chest and promised.

Chen Guiliang was still very confident in him. Although Xie Yang was not very serious at ordinary times, he was never vague at critical moments.

Tao Xue finally stopped teasing the ants, threw away the branch, and said, "Are you done?"

Chen Guiliang smiled and said, "Thank you, Aunt Tao, for coming all the way to give me a PHS."

"I didn't just deliver it to you. I bought it myself at noon and also booked a meal for you and paid for it." Tao Xue once again emphasized her great achievements.

Chen Guiliang said with a smile: "You are an aunt, so elders must work harder."

Tao Xue was very proud and continued to take advantage: "Then you are no longer Senior Zhang Wei, but my little nephew... or no, my eldest nephew."

She is very happy now. She had been cheated by Chen Guiliang before, but now she has finally gotten back at him.

Make big money!

Chen Guiliang called Tao Xue "Auntie Tao" a few more times, making her confused.

"Auntie Tao, please wait here." Chen Guiliang quickly ran back to the dormitory.

When he reappeared, he had a book in his hand.

"For me?" Tao Xue asked in surprise.

"It's a matter of reciprocity," Chen Guiliang said. "Haizi's Poems, the authentic edition I bought from Xinhua Bookstore, contains my thoughts on reading the poems."

This literary girl is too lively and cheerful.

You can read more of Haizi's poems to help her feel a little more depressed.

"Thank you, nephew." Tao Xue's eyes curved into crescents as she smiled.

Chen Guiliang was still making promises: "If I pass the New Concept preliminary round, I'll be able to meet many writers and get some autographs for you."

Tao Xue was even happier: "Please help me get Yu Hua's autograph. Then I'll bring my copy of 'To Live' and ask him to sign the title page. It would be best if he could write a blessing."

"No problem." Chen Guiliang agreed immediately.

Tao Xue's mood became more and more relaxed. She continued to chat with Chen Guiliang and occasionally said a few words to Xie Yang.

It was not until the evening self-study was about to begin that she happily waved goodbye and skipped to the classroom with her copy of "Haizi's Poems".

Tao Xue had left, but Xie Yang was still excited.

“Heh~ha!”

Xie Yang walked around under the camphor tree, and finally punched and kicked the trunk to release the excitement in his heart.

"Let's go to the classroom for evening study." Chen Guiliang reminded.

Xie Yang quickly caught up and exclaimed in admiration, "Master Chen, you're awesome! Seriously, I've wanted to make games for a long time. I originally planned to do it in college, but I didn't expect to be able to do it while I was still in high school."

He had been confused and didn't know what to do, but now he finally had something to do. At the same time, his doubts grew.

Why would Chen Guiliang, who never played online games, suddenly team up with others to create a private server? And even offer advice?
Hero Chen is becoming more and more mysterious.

It was also very mysterious before, and Xie Yang could never see through it.

As they walked outside the teaching building, Xie Yang excitedly said, "Master Chen, we can choose the same city to go to university. During college, I will start a business with you and achieve great things together!"

Chen Guiliang laughed and said, "Damn it, that's a pretty bold word."

……

Night self-study.

The head teacher Liu Shuying walked into the classroom.

"We held a parent-teacher conference last weekend, and the teachers and parents exchanged views. They all agreed that the seats should be adjusted."

"Other classes assign seats based on academic performance. But our Class 11 is an experimental class, and everyone is a good student. I don't think it's necessary to embarrass the students, so most of the time we assign seats randomly, and then make slight adjustments based on height."

"Now that we're in our third year of high school, since some students have no sense of shame or ambition, we'll reassign their seats based on their midterm exam scores."

"From now on, until the college entrance exam, you'll have to change seats for every midterm, final, and mock exam!"

"Wu Meng, you sit in the middle of the first row."

Wu Meng is the top scorer in liberal arts in the city next year, and he ranked first in the school in this midterm exam.

Most of the students in the class looked at Wu Meng with envy.

Except for poor students, they don't want to sit in the front row.

Liu Shuying added, "Student Bian Guanyue, although you didn't take the midterm exam, you have been working hard during this period. Bian Guanyue, you will sit at the same table with Wu Meng."

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole class looked towards the back row.

Something weird!

Bian Guanyue immediately refused: "Teacher Liu, I think this is unfair. I didn't take the midterm exam."

"This is my arrangement," Liu Shuying said, "If your final grades are not good, I will transfer you back to the back."

Bian Guanyue was feeling angry, she guessed that it was her father who had greeted her.

Her father always interferes with her study and life!
Liu Shuying waited in silence for Bian Guanyue to change seats, and the other students also waited.

Bian Guanyue had no choice but to compromise. She couldn't let the conflict between father and daughter disrupt and affect the entire class.

Seeing Bian Guanyue walking towards the first row with her schoolbag, books and test papers in her hands, Li Jun gloated and secretly gave Chen Guiliang the middle finger.

Chen Guiliang pretended not to see it.

After Bian Guanyue sat down at the table in front of the podium, Liu Shuying finally breathed a sigh of relief. She had to complete the task assigned by the dean of studies.

"Li Rui, sit at the table to Wu Meng's left." Liu Shuying held the midterm report card and continued reading out the students' names.

Chen Guiliang, who only did multiple-choice questions in mathematics and failed English and liberal arts, was unexpectedly moved to the second to last row this time.

Because there were two classmates who quietly performed worse than him in the exams.

"Hello, Mr. Chen." Qin Shanshan, the new deskmate, walked over with a smile, holding books and test papers.

"Hello."

Chen Guiliang didn't have a deep impression of Qin Shanshan. He only knew that her parents worked in a tobacco company and that she chose to repeat her studies because she failed to get into a second-tier university in her previous life.

This person also likes to put on makeup and can barely be considered a beauty.

The head teacher's sudden seat adjustment had some impact on Chen Guiliang's strategy plan.

But it doesn't matter.

The evening study session at No. 2 Middle School lasted a full 1 ​​hours and 15 minutes. Each class lasted an hour, with a 15-minute break in between.

The head teacher, Liu Shuying, supervised for only one hour and then left.

Chen Guiliang ran to the restroom during the break, actually wanting to skip a night study session because Tao Chenggang had sent him a text message saying the promotional article had been sent to his email.

"Are you going to skip class?" Xie Yang appeared stealthily.

Chen Guiliang was startled: "Why are you walking without making any sound?"

Xie Yang said, "You are guilty as a thief."

The two of them took a detour to the back door of the school, fearing that they would run into the head teacher.

When we arrived at the internet cafe street, the business was so hot that even after walking past two internet cafes, there were no seats left. Most of them were students who skipped evening self-study to go online!

Of course, not all of them are students from No. 2 Middle School.

Because there is a No. 7 Middle School and the junior high school department of No. 7 Middle School next door.

The three schools together have a total student population of more than 10,000, so there is no shortage of customers for the Internet cafe street.

When it comes to skipping classes to surf the Internet, No. 7 Middle School is more active. Few people stay in the classroom during evening self-study.

Let me put it this way, with Xie Yang's current poor grades, if he transferred to No. 7 Middle School, he would easily be able to get the first place in the school.

Finally finding an internet cafe with a vacant seat, Chen Guiliang received an email as soon as he logged in. It was a soft article from Tao Chenggang titled: "What games can we old Legend players still play now?"

Chen Guiliang read the article carefully and commented that it was "detailed in content but not sensational enough."

He had to polish it himself.

Soon, Chen Guiliang changed the title to: "The Voice of a Legendary Refugee: The Internet is So Big, Where is My Home?"

Xie Yang turned on the computer but did not play games. Instead, he sat down to watch Chen Guiliang edit the article. Based on his own gaming experience, he occasionally offered some suggestions for changes.

It took half an hour to finish all the revisions. Chen Guiliang chatted with Tao Chenggang on QQ and said, "This article will be first published on 17173, the most popular forum. Have your team of online influencers hype the post up, and then have it forwarded to private forums like 17577 through spontaneous reposts by netizens."

Traffic and water army are the definitions given by Chen Guiliang, and Tao Chenggang, Yang Yuhui and Feng Tao have become accustomed to them.

Tao Chenggang received the email, read the article carefully, and immediately replied on QQ: "You're so awesome! The content of the article is the same, the people and events haven't changed, but the wording and sentence structure have been changed to make it extremely sensational."

Xie Yang, sitting nearby, said, "Once this article is published, it will definitely go viral on the gaming forums."

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