Isn't This a Game? Why Are You All Cultivating for Real!

Chapter 84: Chapter 84: Ask Him if He Is Willing to Cooperate

Han Tian had been a streamer for so long that he’d forgotten the struggles of the common working stiff.

Mu Qiu had been thinking about quitting her job for more than just a day or two.

She’d had the idea even before the game came out.

Because she was just too exhausted.

Her speed at killing demon beasts in the game wasn’t slow, and the fact that she was the first to reach the Qi Refining Middle Stage showed that her talent wasn’t bad either.

But recently, she’d used up all her vacation days to play the game.

Her bald boss had been giving her a hard time lately.

Mu Qiu did the math. If she just quit her job and sold the points she farmed to Han Tian, she’d make more in a month than her current pathetic salary.

’Might as well quit!’

After getting a definite answer from Han Tian, Mu Qiu immediately started typing up her resignation letter.

Currently, there was no way to directly gift points in the game, but Mu Qiu could sell Spirit Stones directly to Han Tian. That was something the system couldn’t control.

Players couldn’t pay to win, and Song Jiulai wouldn’t stop Han Tian’s method of single-handedly "paying to win" to the benefit of other players.

With this cycle of benefits in place, the players’ motivation to strive and work hard would also grow.

Of course, after discovering that they could buy Spirit Stones by paying other players, more than a few people had the same idea as Han Tian: spending real money to buy points.

A Palm Thunder Technique manual, which cost 500 points, was still quite difficult for new players to obtain.

Han Tian later added all fifty new players to the Inner Sect Disciple group chat.

Han Tian went right to the group chat and announced he was buying points: [If anyone has extra points you don’t want to use, you can exchange them for a Spirit Stone once you have 10 points and sell it to me. I’ll pay 100 yuan for one Spirit Stone, direct transfer.]

[Lian Yueqiao]: Oh, we can buy Spirit Stones?

[Han Tian]: You can.

[Su Daqiang]: Holy crap, big shot! This game doesn’t even have a pay-to-win channel. Aren’t you afraid of getting stuck with all those points?

[Han Tian]: No way. Look at the exchangeable items the Sect offers now. They’re all good stuff, and there are never enough points. Besides, this game won’t have a data wipe. That alone is enough.

’He wouldn’t lose out by buying them anyway.’

[Lian Yueqiao]: Can I buy some points then? I still can’t afford that Palm Thunder. I’ll pay the same price as Han Tian. If you have any extra, please help me out.

Han Tian didn’t have much of an impression of this person, but he vaguely recalled that she was one of the players who hadn’t joined the group for the first two days after he created it.

And she was a female "lifestyle" player.

Even now, she just helped players watch over their Spirit Fields in the Sect, and occasionally went down the mountain to fish.

She seemed to lead a very leisurely life.

Although she’d created a pretty face for her character, she didn’t interact much with other players.

She did, however, occasionally get along well with A Wu.

A lifestyle player, and a lazy one at that.

It was normal that she didn’t have enough points.

[Han Tian]: Sure. If you need them, you can have priority. I can collect other materials first.

It was a good thing that someone else was buying points.

After all, he couldn’t possibly buy up all the points from every player by himself.

Most players would surely need to sell points. What were the odds that this game would only attract rich people?

People like Mu Qiu were the majority.

[Lian Yueqiao]: Thanks, thanks, big shot.

Tapping the keyboard a bit slowly, Jiang Lian rubbed her eyes.

It was a subconscious habit from staring at her phone for too long.

It was currently 9 PM local time, and she would have to rest soon.

She’d been playing a bit late recently.

She understood now. The game really was fun.

Otherwise, why would her grandson have been so absorbed in his games, forgetting everything else, when he came back to the country for a summer vacation?

That’s right. Han Tian and the others would probably never guess that a grandmotherly figure was hiding in their game’s group chat.

Jiang Lian, fifty-seven years old, now lived alone.

Her son had already immigrated abroad with his wife, and even her grandson held foreign citizenship.

They only came back to see her once every few years.

The phone rang again. Jiang Lian checked the caller ID and answered, "Hello?"

"Mom, how come you haven’t been calling us much lately?" her son’s voice came through, joking, but with a hint of probing.

Jiang Lian: "I’ve been too busy. I’m playing a game, and there’s a lot to do. The other kids asked me to help watch their fields, and I have to help them chase away rats every day."

Hearing that she was playing a game, her son laughed in relief. "It’s good that you found a game to pass the time."

He thought his mom was playing some little farming game.

Didn’t he hear her mention "kids"?

He didn’t expect his mom to be so young at heart.

As he laughed, he brought it up again. "Mom, why don’t you move abroad to be with us?"

Jiang Lian’s face fell instantly. "Not this again. I’ve told you, a vacation is fine, but I don’t want to live there permanently. I was born with a Huaxia stomach. The last time I went, the food gave me stomach problems. I don’t want to go!"

"Mom, it’s mainly that the technology and everything is more advanced abroad. As for the food... there’s plenty of delicious stuff, you’re just not used to it. If you’re in the country by yourself, Xiao Mei and I can’t take care of you."

Jiang Lian rolled her eyes. "What’s more advanced? When I visited last time, their capital city couldn’t even compare to our second-tier city here."

"How can you compare them like that? Our infrastructure is just well-developed. You have to look at other aspects, like their services and all that..."

Listening to her son’s incessant chatter, Jiang Lian only felt annoyed.

She didn’t know how she had raised a son with such a warped perspective.

Ever since he went abroad to study, he thought everything was better than back home, and in the end, he even immigrated.

Jiang Lian felt helpless. He was her son, and at least he hadn’t become a traitor. Now, she just tried to live by ’out of sight, out of mind.’

Jiang Lian used to listen to his ramblings, but now she wasn’t having it. "Don’t talk about this stuff. I’m very busy. And don’t call me so often. I have a daughter to raise now."

"A daughter? Where did you get a daughter?" Her son’s voice immediately became wary.

"In the game! The little girl is very poor right now, I have to help her earn money."

Hearing it was in a game, her son fell silent.

Finally, he could only mumble, "Don’t you go getting scammed out of your money by people in the game."

Jiang Lian shot back, "You’re a smart one to talk. You got scammed out of five million in agency fees to immigrate, and you have the nerve to lecture me."

"..."

The conversation ended on a sour note.

Meanwhile, different players were in different situations.

After Shuitan infiltrated the group, information on this large group of one hundred people fell into the government’s hands.

"The oldest one is a fifty-seven-year-old lady? An old lady is playing the game?"

Wei Jun found it a bit incredible when he saw the files.

His subordinate, Xiaoqing, said, "Chief, why are you calling a fifty-seven-year-old an ’old lady’? The internet is so developed now, it’s not surprising at any age. I saw an eighty-year-old man live-streaming a shooting game the other day."

Wei Jun: "..."

’It’s true, people are too trendy these days.’

Xiaoqing added, "And this Zhen Weida actually managed to snag a spot in the second batch. His luck is really good."

Wei Jun pondered for a moment.

Back when that sentence popped up on the official website, it had said that luck was also a part of one’s strength.

Although Wei Jun didn’t play games, he was a quick study. He thought for a moment and said, "Forget the other players for now; we have Tan Jie looking into them. This Zhen Weida... I recall he’s on file with Xiao Liu, right? Go ask him if he’s willing to cooperate with us."

"One more person means more opportunities to uncover the secrets of this game."