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#92

Chapter 92 You guys are playing this rubbish game too

Duan Mingyuan looked at the game interface his roommate was playing and exclaimed.

He had played this Tianlong game three years ago; it was quite popular then, and he had spent nearly ten thousand yuan on it.

later, after several major updates, the game gradually became a pay-to-win game; if you wanted to be powerful, you had to spend money.

And even if you spent money, it was only a temporary boost to your power; the equipment would constantly update, and if you wanted to maintain your dominance,

you had to continue spending money to buy new equipment.

He wasn't some rich second-generation heir; it was impossible for him to buy new equipment every time it updated.

later, he gradually stopped playing.

He hadn't expected that his roommates were actually playing this game.

"Yuanzi, have you played this game?"

Duan Mingyuan's exclamation just now finally attracted the attention of his three roommates, who all turned to look at him.

"Of course, I've played it! I was even a squad leader in a guild back then."

"Do you still have your account?"

"I just quit the game; I didn't cancel the account, so it should still be there," Duan Mingyuan said with some uncertainty.

He hadn't played for three years and didn't know if the game developer had deleted his account.

"Then log on quickly; let me see!" one roommate said impatiently.

"This game is just a money-grabbing scheme; you can't play it without money. Why did you guys decide to play this?" Duan Mingyuan asked, looking at his three roommates, reminding them.

He had been scammed out of ten thousand yuan back then; thinking about it now, what couldn't he have bought with that ten thousand yuan?

"You log on first." That roommate got up, directly pushed Duan Mingyuan into his seat, and logged out of his own game account.

The other two roommates also got up and leaned closer.

Duan Mingyuan was confused, not knowing why his roommates were so interested in his game account.

However, seeing the expectant looks on his three roommates' faces, he still logged into his account on the login interface.

Soon, the game successfully logged in, indicating that the game developer had not reclaimed his account.

When he entered the character interface,

before he could even look, the heads of his three roommates directly crowded in front of the computer, blocking his view.

"Holy cow, Level 100!"

"The equipment is good enough for grinding monsters."

"Noble Level 7, Yuan Ge, your account is pretty good!"

The three of them exclaimed one after another, then all turned to look at him.

"Yuan Ge, take us leveling!"

As they spoke, even their address changed to Yuan Ge.

"This game really isn't good; let's choose another game to play," Duan Mingyuan said, feeling a bit helpless, not knowing what was going on with his three roommates.

"Yuan Ge, we're not playing the game; we're trying to make money!"

"You don't know, there's a guy next door who got a piece of equipment in this game, and someone bought it for fifteen thousand yuan. Now that guy is so smug; he even adds two chicken drumsticks to his chicken leg rice and bought a new phone."

One roommate described it vividly, with a hint of envy in his eyes.

"Really?"

Duan Mingyuan looked at his three roommates suspiciously. Since when was Tianlong equipment so valuable?

He remembered when he played, the tradable equipment was relatively low-level and couldn't compare to the equipment bought with money.

"Why would we lie to you? Look at the game forum." One roommate said, opening a game forum.

Duan Mingyuan looked over curiously and found that the most popular posts were:

[High-level acquisition of Dragon Slaying Set, fifteen thousand per piece, fair deal for all.]

[Max-level account power leveling, 50 a day, reaches Level 80 in three days.]

[High-priced rental of Tianlong accounts above Level 80, guaranteed price, daily or weekly payment available.]

[………]

Duan Mingyuan then randomly clicked on a few more posts and looked at them, finally understanding the whole story.

It turned out that Tianlong had updated a new piece of equipment, and for some reason, someone was buying this set of equipment at a high price.

To farm this set of equipment, the minimum level required was 80.

Having figured this out, Duan Mingyuan looked up at his three roommates.

"So, you want me to take you leveling?"

"Yes." The three roommates nodded in unison.

They had been grinding for a whole morning and only reached Level 30, but the higher the level, the slower the leveling became.

If they didn't have a high-level character to lead them, they didn't know how long it would take to reach Level 80.

And at this moment, Duan Mingyuan had a high-level character; although it wasn't a max-level Level 140 account, it was more than enough to take them leveling.

"Is that so…?" Duan Mingyuan looked at his three roommates and smiled.

"It's not impossible to take you leveling. Each of you owes me one meal, or you can call me 'Daddy' if you prefer."

"Daddy."

Duan Mingyuan: "?????"

…………

The next day,

early morning.

"Come on, today I'll take you to the Municipality to shop and buy some new clothes."

"Let's not go. I heard clothes in the Municipality are quite expensive."

"Expensive is expensive. We don't buy them often, and you need some presentable clothes when you go out, right?"

At the entrance of the Clothing Factory,

a middle-aged couple conversed in low voices.

"Let's go, the car is about to arrive." Jiang Cheng didn't wait for his wife to refuse and directly led her towards the outside of the Industrial Park.

Today, he planned to go to the machinery trading market to look at machines. later, he thought that he hadn't taken his wife out for a stroll in a long time. It was understandable before when they didn't have much income.

Now that his income had increased, he naturally wanted to take her out to shop.

So he had woken up early, intending to have enough time to shop after seeing the machines.

"Old Jiang."

Just as he was about to reach the entrance of the Industrial Park, he heard someone call his name.

Jiang Cheng turned to look.

"Old Lu, it's you."

"What a coincidence! And this is…?" Lu Zhenguo approached, his gaze falling on Jiang Cheng's wife.

Since he had never met Jiang Cheng's wife, he didn't want to make assumptions.

"Oh, let me introduce you, this is my wife. She also works at the company now, doing cleaning in the cafeteria," Jiang Cheng introduced with a smile.

He used to only go home a few times a year at most, and would video call his wife on his phone. Now he and his wife worked in the same place, and the employee dormitory was almost finished.

He and his wife could even have a couple's room. Compared to their previous life, just thinking about it felt wonderful.

Lu Zhenguo looked at Jiang Cheng's smiling face with a hint of envy.

Some time ago, he had already found out that the double-day off and other benefits Jiang Cheng mentioned were real.

And that employee cafeteria, the food there was incomparable to other factories.

Moreover, he heard that there was an employee sports meeting yesterday, and the prizes given were also very tempting.

It was said that someone who came in last place still received two household appliances.

Such things, if it were before, he would never have believed them.

But now, they were truly happening before his eyes.

Thinking of this,

Lu Zhenguo looked at Jiang Cheng with a fawning smile.

"Old Jiang, I heard you're now a workshop director. Do you think you could help me arrange a position?"

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