Restart life

Chapter 48 0047 [More than 40,000 in dividends in half a month]

Why did Tao Chenggang want to merge the first few districts into two separate servers?
Because of the significant loss of free players, not to mention those who simply quit the game, some went to new servers to create new accounts, and others went to other private servers.

There are three other private servers, all of which use the Abyss dungeon gameplay. They are definitely copycat creations.

The first game died very quickly, riddled with bugs.

The second and third designs, however, were carefully crafted.

The third private server, in particular, advertises "free Abyss tickets upon entering the game," which is very attractive to free-to-play players.

Shanda is not Chen Guiliang's enemy; his competitors who run private servers are!
Wednesday, September 12th.

Legend of the Abyss has been online for 13 days.

Chen Guiliang was preparing for his monthly exams when he received a phone call before finishing his lunch. He chewed on his twice-cooked pork and asked, "Brother Gang, has the lawyer's letter from Shanda arrived?"

"Can't you say something nice?"

Tao Chenggang was both amused and exasperated: "The server merge scheduled for Friday night has been cancelled."

"Another new player has joined the game?" Chen Guiliang was quite surprised.

Tao Chenggang said, "The interview with us by Popular Software was published in the second issue of this month, which was Monday of this week. Some new players flooded in that night, and even more came on Tuesday and Wednesday. I estimate that the number will increase again over the weekend, so there's no need to rush to merge servers."

Although Popular Software magazine has begun to decline, its circulation per issue is still over 15 copies.

Many of these readers have computers at home.

"What a pleasant surprise!" Chen Guiliang said with a smile.

Tao Chenggang continued, "I'm still contacting more internet cafes to cooperate. Although internet cafe players may not have enough spending power, their activity in the game is great. With a large number of internet cafe players, even the big spenders can have a great time."

After chatting for a few more minutes, Tao Chenggang said, "I'm hanging up now. Boss Shi has a QQ message!"

Tao Chenggang put his phone in his pocket and typed on the keyboard: "Good afternoon, Mr. Shi."

"Your private server is still active? Shanda doesn't value you guys."

"They're rich and powerful, and they look down on our small-time operations."

"Have you thought it through? Come and collaborate with me on game development."

"let me think again."

"Okay. Here's my office number. If you ever come to Shanghai, feel free to call and we can grab a meal..."

"Thank you for your kind words, Mr. Shi. This is my mobile number..."

Mr. Shi has confirmed that he will go to Beijing next week to sign a contract to sell Brain Gold to a friend and sell 75% of his shares in Golden Partner to Sitong Company.

After selling these, he will begin his foray into the online gaming market.

As for leaving his phone number with Tao Chenggang, that was purely a matter of Mr. Shi's personality. He didn't care about status when making friends; he only cared about whether they were pleasing to the eye. Sometimes, a single drink was enough to make someone a friend.

Even if Tao Chenggang refuses to cooperate, he can still go to dinner with Boss Shi.

Twenty years later, Mr. Shi was forced to pay 17.65 billion yuan in debt, all because he recklessly guaranteed guarantees for others. He simply had too many shady friends; as long as they were happy drinking with him, millions of yuan would be lent out without hesitation, and guarantee contracts were signed carelessly while he was intoxicated.

A figure who rose to prominence in a chaotic era, he does things in a damn capricious way.

……

Saturday.

The peak concurrent player count for "Legend of the Abyss" reached over 8600.

Chen Guiliang then faces his second test after his rebirth.

Monthly exam.

The first and second year high school students have weekends off, which makes it convenient to free up classrooms for the third year high school students to take exams.

The exam numbers were completely randomized and not arranged according to midterm scores.

Of the guys in room 302, only Liu Zhihong and Chen Guiliang shared an exam room.

"Are you confident?" Chen Guiliang met Bian Guanyue in the hallway.

Bian Guanyue said, "It's alright. I've made great progress lately, asking Wu Meng many difficult questions every day. How about you?"

Chen Guiliang said, "I'm alright too."

"come on."

"come on."

Bian Guanyue was actually a little uneasy.

She used to be an art student, but now she's a regular student, and no matter how hard she tries, it's hard for her to keep up.

This was her first exam after transferring schools.

Chen Guiliang walked into the examination room full of confidence, but the Chinese test paper left him a little confused.

I wasn't sure about the first multiple-choice question (pronunciation of words).

There was also a multiple-choice question in the reading comprehension section. Although he knew which option to choose to get points, he still thought all the options were correct.

The questions were not rigorously designed!
There was another question where, from the perspective of the question setter, he knew that only answer D could earn points. However, answer D itself contained a logical fallacy of reversing cause and effect.

These situations left Chen Guiliang speechless.

I even want to call the person who set the question an idiot!
I have a math exam this afternoon.

Chen Guiliang could only skip around when doing the questions. He was completely lost on all the knowledge points he hadn't reviewed yet and couldn't answer them at all.

I can do about 70-80% of the knowledge points I've already reviewed.

Next came English.

I mostly guessed on the listening comprehension questions.

Okay, from now on, I'll just have to guess on a lot of the English questions...

Humanities Comprehensive Exam.

Chen Guiliang did quite well; at least he wrote down the answers to all the questions.

……

The two-day exam is over.

The guys in room 302 were pretty excited, all feeling they'd exceeded their usual expectations. This only shows that the monthly exam was easy, intentionally designed to boost the students' confidence.

"Master Chen, how many points will you get on the exam this time?" Xu Haibo asked.

Chen Guiliang said, "I don't know, I did so-so on the test."

Xie Yang boasted, "I did the questions really well this time, I think I can get back into the first-tier university cutoff score."

"I also think I can pass the first-tier university entrance exam," Yang Hao said happily.

Yang Hao's scores fluctuated wildly. When the questions were easy, he became more and more confident, but when the questions were difficult, he would become nervous. The more anxious he became, the worse he performed, and he would even make mistakes on questions he knew how to answer.

As everyone was excitedly discussing the monthly exam, Uncle Feng Tao suddenly called.

Chen Guiliang ran outside to find a mobile phone signal, and Xie Yang followed him out furtively.

"Uncle, is there something urgent?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Feng Tao said, "The profits from the first 15 days of the private server have been settled. To put your mind at ease, Brother Gang specifically asked me to be in charge of the settlement."

"The most players recharge on weekends. Especially the day before the siege event, the highest single-day recharge exceeded 4 yuan. Those big spenders went crazy, leading the entire guild to run dungeons together."

"I usually don't recharge much, sometimes two or three thousand a day, sometimes five or six thousand a day."

"In the past two weeks, the total amount recharged has exceeded 256,000 yuan."

“After deducting the costs of private server production, platform promotion, server rental, internet cafe revenue sharing, bank fees, employee salaries and bonuses, the four of us partners made a net profit of 158,000 yuan.”

"Your share is 28%, which is more than 44,000 yuan, and it has already been deposited into your bank account."

Chen Guiliang said happily, "Uncle, you've worked hard."

Feng Tao said dejectedly, "Uncle isn't working hard, but he regrets it."

"Hahaha!"

Chen Guiliang laughed loudly.

Feng Tao partnered with a private server business, investing only a symbolic 2000 yuan, so his share of the profits was negligible.

Tao Chenggang gave him an extra 3,000 yuan this time, which was included in his salary and bonus expenses.

In addition, Tao Chenggang rented a house and set up a command center with several computers. Tao Chenggang borne all these costs himself, because the rent was not much, and the computers and desks could be placed in an internet cafe.

Chen Guiliang was overjoyed, as he received a dividend of 44000 yuan in just half a month!
Moreover, once the cost of making the private clothing is deducted, there is no need to calculate the profit sharing again in the future.

Next, apart from operating costs, everything else is pure profit.

Feng Tao quickly poured cold water on the idea: "This weekend, two more private servers focusing on dungeon gameplay will launch. One of them is even from the 'Dudu Legend' team. We have more and more competitors!"

"It's bound to happen sooner or later. We'll make as much money as we can." Chen Guiliang was quite philosophical about it.

hang up the phone.

Xie Yang asked impatiently, "Did you get your dividends?"

Chen Guiliang nodded: "Yes, I'll get 30,000 to 40,000."

"Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit..."

Xie Yang was already at a loss for words; tens of thousands of yuan was an astronomical figure for him.

Chen Guiliang earned it in just half a month.

"Let's go, let's go to evening self-study." Chen Guiliang patted his shoulder.

Xie Yang finally came to his senses: "You fucking have to treat us to lunch tomorrow!"

"no problem."

"Plus a pack of Hongtashan cigarettes."

Minors should not smoke.

……

Night self-study.

Class teacher Liu Shuying came in with the test papers: "I'll announce the English scores directly. This month's test was relatively easy. Overall, the class's scores have improved compared to the midterm exam."

"The one who deserves the most praise is Peng Yang. He has always been weak in one subject, with his English score consistently around 100. But through his hard work, he scored 118 on the English test this time! Let's give him a round of applause!"

"Clap clap clap..."

A sparse burst of applause rang out.

Peng Yang was beaming, but too embarrassed to show off, so he straightened his back with a serious expression.

"Now, the test papers will be handed out, ranked from highest to lowest score. Wu Meng, 148 points, is in first place again!"

Wu Meng, like a proud little princess, held her head high as she went to receive her test paper.

"Li Rui, 145 points, a great improvement."

Li Rui ran off to collect the exam paper with a grin.

Two minutes later, Liu Shuying said, "Chen Guiliang, 93 points."

Seeing that his homeroom teacher looked displeased, Chen Guiliang brazenly said, "Teacher, I've improved. I only got 82 on the midterm."

Liu Shuying said irritably, "The monthly exam questions are even easier. You'd better watch yourself, I can't control you."

"Bian Guanyue scored 92 points, which means there is still a lot of room for improvement."

Bian Guanyue was very happy. She used to only score 70 or 80 points on English exams, but her hard work during this period had indeed paid off.

The scores for each subject were released the following day.

Chen Guiliang's monthly exam results are as follows:
Chinese 136, Math 68, English 93, Politics 75, History 79, Geography 85. (The monthly exam did not include a comprehensive humanities paper; Politics, History, and Geography were all tested individually.)
Total score 536.

The students seemed to have done well on the test, but because the questions were not difficult, all the students did well overall.

Based on the specific circumstances, the school roughly estimated and drew several lines.

The cutoff score for second-tier universities was set at 535.

Chen Guiliang just barely made it to the second-tier university cutoff score.

(End of this chapter)