Chapter 66: Million-level Online Games

Enter December.

In mid-month, the DNF official website released a celebratory message.

On December 12, the number of DNF players online at the same time exceeded 12 million, successfully unlocking the milestone of a “million-level” online game.

2008 was undoubtedly a miracle year for Dungeon Fighter, as it was the fastest online game in history to reach 100 million concurrent online users.

You should know that among China’s previous three million-level online games, Fantasy Westward Journey took 20 months, World of Warcraft took 36 months, and Conquest took 13 months.

In contrast, DNF took less than half a year!

Nowadays, if you just go to any of the major Internet cafes, you will see that the game “Dungeon & Fighter” definitely occupies half of the market, which shows how popular it is.

Suicheng in late autumn.

The cold air has completely moved south, and there is a cold wave every few days.

“Damn, why does this year feel colder than any other year?”

Coming out of the bank, Li Baijie couldn’t help rubbing his hands tremblingly.

In January this year, the south experienced a large-scale cold wave, and even train passenger transport across the country was suspended, leaving countless people waiting in the station to go home.

I didn’t expect that it’s freezing cold even though it’s not even 09 yet.

“They say the cold in the north is a physical attack, while the cold in the south is a magical attack…”

An Yi chuckled, “Let’s go, let’s have hot pot today, let’s have mutton!”

They came out of the bank this time just to divide the money!
Since the first order of automatic delivery script was sold at the end of October, their “Yijie Store” has gradually got on the right track.

In November, their store sold more than 11 orders and earned more than 900 yuan, of which the two divided 2.3 yuan equally.

In December this year, the business in the store grew steadily, approaching 12 orders, and the two of them shared nearly 1500 RMB.

In other words, since the store opened, An Yi and Li Baijie have earned 63,000 RMB!
“Come on, I’ll treat you today!”

Li Baijie waved his hand with great vigor.

It is said that money is like a man’s waist. This is the feeling of being rich. If you have ten coins on your waist, your clothes will make a sound… The ancients were not deceiving me!
The two came to the most high-end Sichuan hotpot restaurant near Guangzhou University, ordered a table full of delicious dishes, and started to feast on them.

An Yi said: “You ordered so much, why don’t you invite some classmates in your dormitory?”

“You can’t.”

Li Baijie shook his head and said, “Don’t show off your wealth. My family is average in the dormitory. If I go back and show off, I will be grateful for the little I earn and resentful for the little I earn. In the end, it will affect our careers…”

He knew very well that showing off in front of his roommates was the stupidest thing to do.

“Ah.”

An Yi couldn’t help but nod secretly. The guy in front of him was still clear-headed. Although he suddenly became rich, he was not blinded by the money.

The two of them ate hot pot and sang songs comfortably.

After having a good meal and a good drink, An Yi looked out the window and suddenly saw a familiar figure.

It was a thin young man, who seemed to be called Lin Tianyu, and played a game with the ID “Unlucky Bear”.

At this time, Lin Tianyu came out of the daily rental house and tried hard to wrap up his thin school uniform.

“Brother Yi, what are you looking at?”

Li Baijie looked out the window in confusion. There were cars coming and going, but nothing unusual happened.

“Brother Jie, what do you think we lack the most right now?” An Yi asked.

“What is missing?”

Li Baijie looked confused. He and the other party had made some money now, but neither of them thought the money was too much.

It must be because of lack of money…

An Yi shook his head, suddenly stood up and walked out of the hot pot restaurant.

“Hello again, Unlucky Bear.”

“Uh, you are…”

Lin Tianyu was stunned for a moment, then he suddenly remembered and said in surprise: “Your name is An Yi, the one who found the security card and returned it to me last time!”

An Yi nodded and said with a smile: “Brother, have you eaten? If not, let’s go in and eat something together.”

The unlucky bear in front of me was still wearing autumn clothes, with brown casual pants and a pair of flat Converse shoes. But now it was winter and the streets were chilly, but he was only wearing a high school uniform jacket.

However, his schoolbag is still there.

“Haha, thank you…”

Lin Tianyu tried hard to smile and said, “But I just ate and was about to go to the Internet cafe to surf the Internet.”

An Yi didn’t say much and dragged her into the hot pot restaurant.

The steaming hot pot made Lin Tianyu feel the long-lost warmth. Looking at the food served to him by the other party, his nose suddenly felt sore.

Although Li Bojie was not clear about the gay relationship between the two, he was still observant and was only concerned with picking up food for the other person.

“Have you made any money as a businessman in the game?”

“No, I can’t even support myself…”

“Do you know why?”

“why?”

Lin Tianyu looked up in confusion and met the other person’s clear eyes.

The person in front of him was about the same age as him, but his conversation and temperament were totally beyond the reach of someone as poor as himself…

“Because you are not a businessman.” An Yi answered calmly.

This guy with the ID of Unlucky Bear actually wanted to buy the Wind Chaser Set for 10 gold coins each more than a month ago.

Even though the Wind Chaser Set could be sold for five or six hundred thousand gold coins, novice players have no idea of ​​its value. As long as they are willing to spend some time, they can buy it from them for thirty or twenty thousand gold coins.

Even now, 20 is still enough to collect Mozhu in Sky City, and it is common to collect three or five a day.

But this guy was too kind-hearted and only made double the profit.

There was also a scam where a scammer set up a stall for 1 gold coin, and foolishly stood by to remind people who were rushing to buy…

How naive is this? An Yi asked himself, although he has a bottom line, he can’t do such a stupid thing.

“Uh, I’m not a businessman?” Lin Tianyu savored the other party’s words carefully.

Although he was very grateful to the other party for inviting him to dinner, he did not quite agree with it in his heart.

He still insisted that businessmen only earn limited profits, and that there can be no business without fraud is not his life creed.

“I just saw you coming out of the daily rental house. Where have you been living all this time?” An Yi smiled and changed the subject, no longer arguing with the other party about the businessman.

“It’s not…”

Lin Tianyu shook his head in embarrassment, “I’ll just stay here for a few days. After all, I don’t have much money.”

He was originally from Guangxi Province and was a sophomore at a nearby agricultural university. However, due to unexpected events at home a few months later, he had to suspend his studies due to financial pressure.

As for why I chose to become a game businessman, it’s a long story.

The three of them talked for a while.

“Are you interested in joining us?” An Yi invited solemnly.

Lin Tianyu was slightly stunned. “Join you? Are you also game merchants?”

“correct.”

Li Baijie and An Yi looked at each other and understood why Brother Yi was so concerned about a stranger.

It turned out to be to expand the team.

They have been very busy lately.

Li Baijie has to attend classes during the day, and post, promote, maintain and update scripts at night. He also usually practices with his secondary account in other areas.

And he recently applied on 173 to join an “DNF Official Press Group”. As long as he can get in, in addition to some QB rewards and experience server qualifications, he will also have the opportunity to access official first-hand information.

Of course, this official press corps is not there for nothing, they need to complete a certain amount of interview manuscripts and other activities.

On the other hand, Brother Yi basically never leaves his computer during the day.

In addition to being a game merchant, I also have to look after the Wangwang store and answer some daily questions…

If you recruit one more team member, there is strength in numbers, which is always a good thing.

But this poor fellow in front of him, who looked like he hadn’t had a full meal for many days, seemed to have a good character.

“thank you all.”

Lin Tianyu nodded seriously, and then shook his head.

“It’s okay. Everyone has their own aspirations.”

An Yi understood the other party’s attitude.

The world does not revolve on its own. Everyone has his or her own choices, which he understands and respects.

……

Dongshan Province.

In a university dormitory in Nanji, a young man who looked like a giant macaque was lying on the bed with a slightly hot forehead.

He caught a cold.

Recently, he goes out to the Internet cafe late at night every day to surf the Internet, and returns to the dormitory to sleep in the morning. His day and night life are reversed.

But the cold was not caused by this. The reason was that my girlfriend, who I had been dating recently, got angry over some inexplicable trivial matter.

“It’s a monkey trick! Women are really hard to please…”

The big monkey lay on the bed, feeling depressed.

He felt uncomfortable because he was sent his girlfriend back to the dormitory last night and got caught in the rain.

After just a glance at the night sky, he got up, climbed over the wall and went to the Internet cafe to surf the Internet.

There is no other way. As a long-time internet addict, even if he is sick, not being able to access the internet is more painful than having ants crawling on your body!
Came to the Internet cafe.

The big monkey opened Aipai to see if there were any good videos.

“Hmm? This ‘Leaving Sadness’ again, Red Eyes blocking the spot and brushing the headless?”

He clicked on a video called “Civilian Red Eyes, Teach You How to Defeat the Headless Horseman Without Getting Injured.”

In the picture, a red-eyed man without any costumes and holding a huge sword of execution in his hand, facing the headless BOSS stuck at the edge of the map, just flattened it on the ground…

“I’m wet, is this okay?”

After watching this video several times in a row, the giant macaque rubbed its chin, deeply inspired.

“Damn it, this guy has been posting all kinds of red-eye videos of civilians recently… Although the technical content is very high, there are not many flowers?”

He glanced at the flower list and saw only about five or six thousand flowers. The video wasn’t very popular and was just average.

“Civilian videos are ultimately not gimmicky!”

The big monkey sneered and looked at the red eyes of a Sun Chaser with the ID “Jiuri Baby” in his character list.

In Red Eyes’ hand was a +12 Sword of Judgment.

“Damn it, let’s do it again! If I succeed in adding 13, I’ll make a headless video, it will definitely go viral!”

The big monkey shouted in his heart.

Control the character to come in front of Kelly.

[Player Jiuri Baby’s +13 coarse cloth slippers failed!]
[Player Jiuri Baby’s +13 coarse cloth slippers failed!]
……

After seven or eight pads failed, he cried out strangely, “I feel it! It’s right! It’s now!”

After saying that, he directly threw the +12 Sword of Judgment in his hand into the strengthening furnace.

Squeak, squeak, squeak~ rub~
Thump thump thump!

[Congratulations to player Jiu Ri Baby for successfully strengthening his Sword of Judgment to +13!]
The big monkey covered his face with his hands and slowly moved his fingers away.

When he really saw his weapon on the screen, the golden words indicating successful strengthening.

The big monkey coughed a few times, rolled his eyes in excitement, and fainted.

(End of this chapter)