Chapter 317: Chapter 319: The Official Forum Ruined by Silly Players (5200 words) Chapter 317: Chapter 319: The Official Forum Ruined by Silly Players (5200 words) Lide twisted his lock and the very next second, he felt a figure in fiery red business attire scream and hurl towards him.
Before he could dodge, he was hit squarely in the chest.
Hiss~
Lide’s first impression was…
So soft…
So tender…
Was this what a young wife felt like?
I really am…
Inside the house, Zhao Yue crashed into a broad and solid embrace.
Her body pushed tightly against his, she could even clearly feel her own proud curves being pressed into deep arcs.
But in the midst of the chaos, she hadn’t thought much of it, her hands instinctively wrapped around him to prevent her body from falling, but this only made their contact even closer.
From an outsider’s perspective, this scene looked exactly like a couple’s embrace.
After steadying herself, Zhao Yue slled a distinctly masculine scent with a hint of post-shower freshness.
Already flustered, her heart skipped a beat when she caught the scent, and her face turned red at an astonishing speed.
The plump and luscious peach that she was, beca even more tempting.
Lide stood there, not sure whether to move or stay still, his expression rather strange.
Particularly, the charm of this mature lady constantly stimulated his senses, making him feel a rush of blood.
If you don’t move… it’s hard for too.
The atmosphere beca weirdly tense, and it took Zhao Yue a few seconds to co back to her senses, lifting her head with a sowhat indignant expression from that robust embrace.
Then, a face so handso it could be deed perfect appeared before this mature lady’s eyes.
Those deep, dark eyes twinkled like stars, exuding a magnetic pull hard to look away from.
Seeing Lide clearly, Zhao Yue’s blush deepened even further.
She frantically struggled to stand up, but just as she managed to get up, she felt a sharp pain in her foot and lost her balance, tumbling back onto Lide.
Hiss~
Lide once more felt the allure of this mature lady.
Such overwhelming waves…
Seeing the bewildered look on Lide’s face, Zhao Yue looked incredibly aggrieved, like a juicy peach.
“I…I twisted my ankle…”
Seeing Zhao Yue both embarrassed and anxious, almost to the point of tears, a wry smile appeared on Lide’s face.
The usually dignified and composed mature lady, unexpectedly had such a girlish mont.
Glancing behind him and seeing no one around, Lide finally extended his hand to support Zhao Yue, placing the mature lady onto a chair behind the desk.
Once Zhao Yue was seated, both of them sighed with relief.
“Mr. Zhao, your foot…”
“I’m fine, Mr. Li, please have a seat. I’ll have the team doctor co over in a bit, don’t worry.
After all, as you know, we’ve hired a few professional healthcare and fitness trainers.
Most of those professional gars are hobodies, and without soone overseeing them, they easily turn into atballs…”
Zhao Yue was bashful and slightly awkward, but she tried her best to pretend as if nothing had happened, steering the conversation elsewhere.
Having this sort of incident unfold in front of her superior, no matter how you looked at it, seed off, especially since he was so… handso.
Thinking about this made her feel even more uncomfortable, and her blushing face didn’t subside.
Lide chuckled, quickly understanding her little concerns, and sat down right in front of her desk.
He could still feel a faint fragrance in his arms that lingered from the mature lady, and the remarkable sensation was etched in his mory.
Shaking his head, he considered that his self-control had diminished quite a bit recently.
Was it ti to make a move on his little maid?
Clearing his throat.
“The developnt of Crimson Moon thus far has largely been thanks to Mr. Zhao…”
Although both were speaking, the atmosphere still felt sowhat bizarre.
Thud, thud, thud~
Just at that mont, a series of knocks on the door interrupted the sowhat awkward atmosphere between the two.
“Co in.”
Feeling as though she had been liberated, Zhao Yue breathed a huge sigh of relief inwardly. Of course, she still maintained a calm smile on her face, but the previous scene and that solid embrace seed impossible to forget. The more she tried to ignore that feeling, the deeper it got.
“Mr. Zhao, I’m here to repair the lock…” A uniford maintenance man entered the room and looked at the door lock with a peculiar expression.
“It wasn’t this serious when I checked it this morning. How did it break like this?”
Lide’s lips twitched slightly hearing this; he hadn’t expected this body to now possess such great strength.
While the lock wasn’t made of solid iron fit for a burglar-proof door, it wasn’t sothing that should break easily either.
“Mr. Zhao, let replace it with the latest virtual electronic lock for you. This old model should have been phased out long ago…”
“Thank you, that would be great,” Zhao Yue said appreciatively to the maintenance man who had arrived, her expression gradually softening.
“No problem. I’m Wang, and while I may not be good at many things, I’m excellent at working with locks…”
After the neighbor, Wang, had replaced the lock, Lide felt for so reason that this office might be sowhat insecure.
I live next door, my surna is Wang, skilled at picking locks and slipping through doors…
“Mr. Li, are you listening?”
While the maintenance worker was busy with the lock, Zhao Yue’s face had returned to normal. After all, as a mature woman who had worked for so long, she had faced quite a few storms.
Although she hadn’t completely dispelled the odd feeling inside her, she was no longer so embarrassed in front of Lide.
“Hmm? What did you just say?”
Zhao Yue couldn’t help but get a little annoyed with Lide’s seeming indifference and, rembering what had just happened, she glared at him resentfully.
“I said the company’s scale has grown considerably, and we need more managent talent. You need to appoint more advanced vice presidents—I’m having trouble keeping up now.
It would be best to add two; one to manage the Profession player community and another to manage the ga comrce departnt.”
Discussing this issue made Lide slightly furrow his brows as he pulled himself out of his previous emotional state and into work mode.
Profession players, data analysis, ga comrce—this trident was the foundation of his future developnt of player power.
Crimson Moon’s current number had already surpassed a thousand people, which counted as a large scale among dium-sized clubs.
The larger the body, the more inevitable the need for detailed managent.
When the scale was small, senior managent could handle various tasks, but as the scale grows, they inevitably can’t keep up.
“If Mr. Zhao already has ideas for this area, don’t hesitate—I trust you, go ahead and proceed.”
As long as Crimson Moon’s overall direction followed his vision, there wouldn’t be any major problems. He wanted to cultivate a team of players that could aid Dawn City, not prioritizing profit.
Moreover, he didn’t really have the ti to manage the club. As Dawn City’s scale grew, he couldn’t keep running back and forth between it and Earthly Glory; delegating so authority to his subordinates was inevitable.
Hearing this, Zhao Yue was both delighted and helpless; a company of this scale could let her fully showcase her abilities without limitations, which was what she had always dread of.
However, her boss’s obvious reluctance to get involved made her shake her head.
“Mr. Li, don’t you think you need to take so ti to manage the company?”
She had expected Lide to decline as usual, but to her surprise, Lide actually nodded in agreent.
“I was indeed considering this. I will be in the company office for the next two months; it’s the perfect ti to revisit Crimson Moon’s developnt direction.”
“What did you say?”
Seeing Zhao Yue’s expression of disbelief, the corner of Lide’s mouth twitched.
“I will review the company’s developnt during this period; I’ll need Mr. Zhao to point out any issues.”
The body within Glory was still growing slowly in the blood pool; Lide was uncertain how long this growth would take, but according to the current speed, it would take at least one to two months, not in Glory Ti but in Earth ti.
So, he could only wait.
Level 18’s body contained too much power. Reviving from the few souls left in the blood pool after death was no simple matter.
Even Lide’s most optimistic estimate would not see him return to Glory until about a month before the server launch.
The official launch date on the website was October 12th of this year, and it was June 20th now, which left a little over three months.
Although worried about the challenges Dawn City would face in his absence from Glory, the fact was it had happened, and he could only accept whatever ca.
Moreover, Dawn City was no weakling; Lide believed that the system he had personally built would safely weather these difficulties.
After discussing serious matters, both of them tacitly avoided talking about the heart-racing scene that had just unfolded.
In the following week.
Sothing very strange happened during the Crimson Moon.
Their boss, that rich and astonishingly handso young hunk, actually showed up to work every day.
This was as rare as winning the lottery.
Many of the good-looking female employees were secretly pleased, and several deliberately greeted Lide with sweet smiles when he arrived and left work, hoping to make a good impression.
And believe it or not, a few bold girls even managed to get his WeChat.
Unfortunately, the male god seed always busy, replying with “I’m taking a shower,” “I’m busy,” or “I’m off to sleep” when chatting.
This made many girls sigh quietly, searching online for tips on how to flirt…
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“Mr. Li, all the paperwork for the villa is complete. Here’s the property deed, the invoice, this is…”
Cheng Lu stood before Lide’s desk, with all the docunts of the villa he had bought recently laid out before her.
“I’ve arranged for soone to re-inspect the renovations. Any missing or substandard furniture and appliances will be replaced, and you should be able to move in within half a month,” she added.
Lide nodded in satisfaction at his capable assistant.
“You’ve done well, the work is comndable.”
Cheng Lu bead with a radiant smile.
“You’re too kind, sir. It’s all part of my job,” said the girl with so baby fat, ordinary in looks but quite cute when she smiled.
“Alright, I’ll leave this matter in your hands.
Is the car ready?”
“It’s ready.
Mr. Li, that club called Dark Contract Club is a small newly established club with three founders, their forum nas are Hun Yuan, Thunderclap Hand, and Cheng Kun.
They currently have exactly thirty players, and their location is not too far from us, just half an hour’s drive…”
Lide couldn’t help but chuckle when he heard these nas.
Hun Yuan Thunderclap Hand Cheng Kun, these three goofball players were the ones who had joined Dark Contract and were spotted by Stanley to establish an Earth branch of Dark Contract.
He had originally believed that Stanley’s idea of starting an Earth branch of Dark Contract would be impossible for the players to accept, after all, who would take orders from an NPC without losing face, right?
But to his surprise, these guys really did go through with it, and he stumbled upon an advertisent recruiting mbers for Dark Contract while browsing the forums yesterday.
And after a little digging, he discovered this newly established mini-club was actually in the sa city as he was.
Now, he was sowhat impressed with Stanley. It was unexpected that the NPC’s plan had actually worked out, and those goofball players had indeed established a branch of Dark Contract on Earth.
He could only marvel at this.
The invasion of Earth by NPCs was no longer a dream.
This forr Evil God believer really had maxed out his understanding of human nature.
“Let’s go, let’s see what this Dark Contract Club is all about.”
Lide was quite looking forward to it.
He was curious about how much the player-created Dark Contract would differ from the one in the ga, whether they really followed Stanley’s ideas, or if it was just a sheep in wolf’s clothing, using the na of Dark Contract for show.
“Yes, Mr. Li.”
After confirming there was nothing else, Lide stood up and set off for the Dark Contract Club with his assistant.
Crimson Moon had dedicated business vehicles, including two Maybachs and two regular rcedes.
These were purchased on Lide’s specific instructions to Zhao Yue; he personally didn’t mind, but for the company, cars represented prestige. No matter where you went, your vehicle was a part of your strength.
The reception you get when driving a Rolls-Royce is definitely different from that when driving a van.
Though not everyone is that superficial, in this world of rampant desires, no one has the ti to care if the person driving a $100,000 car has a net worth of over a billion.
Displaying your power in the most direct way is simple, crude, and doesn’t require much thought.
This is the most primal and frank thod of social interaction.
It’s just like the luxury items on a nouveau riche that have no correlation between price and cost.
Nobody knows about the hundreds of millions in your bank account, but when you’re wearing a tailored British royal suit worth 1.2 million, you’re most likely demonstrating your substantial strength to others.
Lide always thought that this way of behavior was no different from primal humans showing off their muscles or certain carnivores flaunting their tusks—in essence, they were all about flaunting one’s own survival value and the capital behind it to gain recognition from others.
But the world is so magical, everyone knows how ludicrous the rules of this world are, yet no one can escape them.
Everyone can only be a primitive person stark nakedly displaying their muscles to others.
Moreover, the majority of people take pride in it, my muscles are bigger and stronger than yours…
Thinking about it, Lide suddenly laughed out loud, shaking his head amidst Cheng Lu’s puzzled gaze.
“By comparison, although Glory is cruel and ignorant, it seems more real than this magical world.”
“Mr. Li, are you talking to ?”
“Hmm, has Mr. Zhao gotten married?” Lide hadn’t intended to say much more but suddenly seed to rember sothing and looked at Cheng Lu curiously.
“Mr. Zhao is thirty this year, right?”
Cheng Lu blinked in mild surprise, then sowhat confusedly replied, “Mr. Zhao isn’t married yet. She joined the Sword and Shield Club after graduating from university, which is what we now call Crimson Moon, and has been busy with work. I’ve never heard her ntion anything about a boyfriend…
Mr. Li, could it be that you want to—?”
After speaking, her eyes took on an eager expression, zealous for gossip.
Lide shook his head with a wry smile.
“Crimson Moon will enter the fast track of developnt after the open beta, which will require high-intensity work. I was just asking in advance to avoid affecting Mr. Zhao’s family life later on.”
Cheng Lu looked greatly disappointed, shaking her head. She thought it was sothing substantial; it turned out to be mundane.
Lide didn’t explain further, stretched comfortably, and casually picked up his phone.
He opened the Glory official forum, which he had been following these past few days.
It can’t be said enough; after the closed beta, the Glory forum had beco an explosively popular presence.
The daily number of posts was such that many veteran portal websites couldn’t keep up.
But what made Lide laugh was that all the posts in the official forum were various odd and ridiculous ones made by silly players.
The most popular one was an extrely heavy-taste post; it was surprising it hadn’t been deleted.
“On How to Willingly Be Sold to Female Nobles by Human Traffickers Strategy Guide”
Recently, I have seen many people interested in this, wanting to find a female noble to marry so they don’t have to toil for fifty years. I fully endorse this idea. Is there anything wrong with relying on our capabilities to partake in a kept man’s soft als?
About this matter, as a man who’s been sold three tis, I have to stand out and relieve the worries of our fellows.
Firstly, we need to clarify who would buy slaves to take back for… uh-huh? It’s certainly those rich, powerful, yet empty and lonely female nobles, especially those over fifty. As the saying goes, thirty is like a wolf, forty like a tiger, and at fifty…
After the lengthy ten-thousand-word post, there were densely packed comnts below.
Comnt 1: Is this actually a strategy guide??! Poster, are you, are you okay?? Three tis, how can you endure that.
Comnt 2: Finally, so hardcore material, what’s wrong with them being a bit older? You guys don’t understand, this is love, superficial.
Comnt 3: I’m blind now; a strategy guide for old won in their fifties?? Please be human…
Comnt 4: To think there’s such a detailed tutorial, it’s so twisted, but I like the thrill.
Comnt 5: …
…
“Elf Strategy Alliance is now officially in operation. Our goal is, every man should have an elf girl, elves are our true love, other races are heretics…”
“In this session, I will discuss how to seduce a handso and attractive male noble to give you everything, and how to successfully rise to the position of his legitimate wife, finally clearing away all the mistresses. As for court intrigue, I have so experience, this ti…”
“The secret manual is here, how to beco a Mage and acquire hidden professions guide, the entire strategy only costs 100 yuan. Yes, that’s how cheap it is, if I can’t teach you, you get your money back. If interested, join the QQ group to beco an apprentice, if you don’t believe, don’t bother…”
“There’s an urgent call for the open beta to start imdiately. The noble woman I’m wooing is waiting for , damn the official planners, you must be jealous of , you must be!!”
Lide found these silly players’ posts very entertaining, especially the one about being sold to female nobles, which left him astounded.
There were actually people eying up fifty-year-old noble won… Standards were dropping lower and lower.
A casual glance across the forum, and a newly posted thread instantly caught his attention,
Because the poster was a very familiar na—Broken Sword Knight, the one who had released the Undead Monarch and caused the undead calamity and was also the first player to reach level 5.
Broken Sword Knight: About the idea of mass-producing bone dragons…
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