Chapter 555: The greater the power, the greater the debt
"It's definitely impossible to get a million points. Even now, the points we can immediately find, even if we put all our resources together, can only be 20,000 to 30,000. And that's even after immediately cutting some related plans..."
"I know you're probably wondering how it could be so few, but we've carefully planned how to use each point. Putting aside the necessary improvements for our employees, there really isn't much left."
"For many officials, the supplies gained through points are crucial materials for many researchers, and they are also the key to maintaining sanity for many Beyonders."
"In short, even if you sell me to the company, I won't be able to get that many points..."
“…”
On the other side of the phone, Mr. Wu patiently explained the reason for the small number of points - the points of a company employee may be used by a large group of people behind the scenes, and every dollar earned must be divided into five or six parts for different purposes.
If you want to embezzle funds, you can only cut some of the points expenditures for research purposes, and you cannot cut other necessary ones.
"The points situation is so tense..."
Colin muttered, but as he watched, he suddenly noticed the key to the other person's words.
Mr. Wu seemed to think that he should take it out all at once?
"Actually, it's not necessary to take it out right away..." Colin briefly explained the situation.
Tell the other party that there will be a grace period of about two months. The time is not particularly tight and the problem is not particularly big. It only takes this period of time to get it over with.
However, after hearing Colin report the specific time, Mr. Wu on the other side of the phone immediately frowned, as if he had seen something incredible.
"Fifty-seven days?"
Mr. Wu pinched his fingers, pretended to count, and then fell silent.
In a pair of dark eyes that seemed to see through everything, countless dark threads seemed to be wriggling frantically...
After a while, he blinked and everything returned to normal. He sighed and shook his head:
"Those guys up there in the company are really accurate in their time estimates."
After thinking for a while, Mr. Wu gave Colin another accurate response: "In two months, we should be able to squeeze out about 100,000 or 150,000 points..."
"It takes two months to squeeze out 100,000..."
Colin pursed his lips, knowing that this was approaching the limit. There should be about five or six hundred "double-job" employees in the country, and on average each person earns about a thousand points per month.
After deducting the expenses for the project and various other plans, there is really not much money left.
However, thinking about the remaining 900,000 points, Colin still felt a bit overwhelmed.
At this moment, he saw another message from Mr. Wu:
"But this is a matter for the entire world and the responsibility of every human being. At times like this, humanity should unite and form an unbreakable community with a shared future for mankind..."
"I'll help you contact the outside world. If nothing goes wrong, we should be able to squeeze out a few hundred thousand. Of course, if we plunder by force, we might be able to get more, but doing so will lead to unnecessary consequences, so we have to do it normally..."
"I just did a quick calculation and gave you a base number of 400,000 points. But it's hard to say how much more I can lend you above that, so you'll have to work hard on your part..."
When Ke Lin heard what Mr. Wu said, he was stunned at first, and then he became happy.
One million points became six hundred thousand points.
The pressure was immediately reduced by almost half!
Although it has caused some hardship to the "double-job" employees around the world and has forced everyone to tighten their belts, everything will be fine as long as he becomes a C-level employee!
Now, apart from necessary expenses, we have to make the employees suffer.
"Okay, okay, okay. Thank you in advance to the Community with a Shared Future for Mankind. I won't forget everyone's efforts." Colin quickly typed to confirm this relationship.
"Don't be so vague, kid. This is a loan to you. Don't tell me that you don't have to return it..."
"Yeah, yeah, I'll definitely pay it back if I have the chance, I'll definitely pay it back."
Colin sincerely thanks the response.
Then, he began to miss the fifteen-ring mission again. If there was another one, maybe he would have a chance to collect that many...
Otherwise, under normal circumstances, even if you calculate it as high as possible, you may not get 100,000 points in a month.
"By the way, the company's senior employees should be able to do something..."
Colin immediately contacted the group of old hands in the company and tactfully suggested that he might need some points.
In this regard, the senior employees were surprisingly cooperative, especially some D+ employees, who even said that they would empty their own savings to lend him their points, showing great enthusiasm.
Colin thought about it and roughly understood that they must be thinking of completing the "Happy Farm Seven-Day Tour" by then.
He had no objection to this.
But there is a problem. What if this mission doesn't follow the "Happy Farm Seven-Day Tour" route?
That seems a bit embarrassing.
"We'll talk about the future later. Once I reach C-rank, I should be able to make some super-powerful golden seals and help them pass..."
Assuming the employees are at level 69, and "Happy Farm Seven Days Tour" is a level 89 copy, then if he gives each of them a level 159 non-level item, they should be able to pass the game with almost no difficulty.
At the very least, there should be no problem in saving one's life.
Soon, Colin obtained 47,000 points from more than a dozen D+ level employees.
"If I sell some more things later, I should be able to get tens of thousands of points to spend."
Colin made a simple calculation and was in a good mood, having solved another 100,000 points.
There are 500,000 points left...
In the past month and a half, he and Shana had been running a gold bean business, with the profits split 50-50. Colin remembered that she had accumulated a certain amount of capital, which she had left with him, amounting to approximately 74,000 yuan.
"I'll tell Shana about it later."
Colin pursed his lips, knowing that Shana would most likely be willing to lend it, even all of it.
The pressure suddenly eased a lot.
But thinking of Shana, Colin then thought of "King of Mad Sound". He remembered that "Seal of the Fire Tree" could accumulate some points, so "King of Mad Sound" should also have some, right?
"It's a high-ranking being after all... Never mind. It's locked in a cage, so it's highly unlikely to exist. Even if it does..."
Colin thought of the "branch".
Given its nature, if there are any, it will definitely use both deception and fraud to get the points.
"Oh, right, speaking of the 'Fire Tree', how could I have forgotten that among some 'summoning' props, most of the anomalies that were made into props will have some accumulation..."
Colin set his sights on the accumulation of contents in these props.
I feel like I can find some employees later, communicate with them about the relevant situation, and temporarily "sell" similar props to them. After I get the points, I can sell them back and share the points I got with them.
Although the contents of these props may seem to be "low-paying", after accumulating for a hundred or eighty years, the value can be as low as a few hundred and as high as a few thousand. If you are lucky, you might even be able to make a killing.
"Given my credibility, the operation should be no problem. As for the idea of the containment object..."
Colin had no intention of ignoring it: "I'm just borrowing it. When I earn more points in the future, I'll pay them back. As long as I become a C-level employee, everything will be fine."
"Now I have 400,000 points left. Let's see how much they can replenish for me. Well, any amount is fine. It's a pleasant surprise anyway."
After calming down, Colin lay on the head of the bed and rubbed his hot head, feeling that the pressure was still a bit great.
Of course, the main reason for the high pressure is not just the points...
There are more vague messages behind this mission.
"Something bigger is about to happen..." Colin felt particularly uneasy when he thought about it.
Normally, it's fine if I don't think about it, and I don't feel or experience much, but as soon as I calm down and think about it, I will feel inexplicably absurd for no reason...
Who could have imagined that a world that looked normal and everything seemed to be getting better.
Maybe it won’t be long before we face a huge crisis?
However, before I could think about it any further, the voice of the little maid suddenly came:
"Mr. Colin, the meal is ready."
"Yeah." Colin turned over and sat up.
Now that things have come to this, let's have a meal first. After a hearty meal to calm down, Colin checked the time. When he was sure there was still some time, he began to take the initiative to take on some tasks.
Currently, D-level tasks generally cost around 300 to 500 points, and you can accept a maximum of three per week.
Of course, special talents are given preferential treatment and can do seven.
"That's really thoughtful..."
Ke Lin pursed his lips and couldn't help but curse softly: "Fuck, why is this mission mode just like hunger marketing..."
Then, he randomly picked a mission called "Laoshan Ancestral Home" and started to carry it out.
Perhaps because he took the initiative to accept the mission, Colin was surprised to find that he did not see any other surprises throughout the whole process. There was just a group of ancient abandoned houses in the middle of a hill.
There are some clay figures inside, which may have been unusually revived due to years of weathering.
However, after Colin and a section of the mountain in that area were set on fire, the incident ended...
"It seems that the tasks I passively accept are carefully selected for me."
"But, D-class personnel usually do tasks of this level, right?"
Colin looked at the melting mountain, shook his head and sighed. No wonder everyone was so clumsy before.
The intensity is too low...
How can I lend him money if I do this kind of tasks every day? No, how can I improve myself?
With a wave of his hand, the flames that melted the mountain returned to Colin's hands, carrying the heat within. Not long after, he returned home and calculated his points...
"A D-rank mission, only to receive eight or nine hundred points and two silver mission vouchers for an A-grade mission? You're just treating me like a beggar!"
Colin frowned. After two months of hard work, he only got about 10,000 points, not even a fraction of the points needed to repair them.
After thinking about it, he set his sights on some "difficult team tasks".
These tasks require ten people to perform together, and because there are so many people, the internal situation is complicated, so there are not many employees willing to perform them, even if the points are two or three times higher than normal.
However, if the execution is successful, you can get at least 2,000 points. The greater the evaluation contribution, the more points you get...
Of course, it is still not high when viewed alone.
But if there are more than a dozen people at once, and each of them can earn that much, the total will be quite a lot.
As long as the employees have money, they can find a way to borrow some...
"I feel like I can start a team and recruit people, and ask them to give me some of the points..."
Colin thought about it and felt that the plan was feasible.
In addition to points, clearance certificates are also very important in a mission. Although the points are a little less, it is easy to get gold mission certificates for complex team missions.
Just getting this golden pass certificate is not a loss.
Sure enough, when Colin mentioned this, many employees responded and expressed their willingness to follow suit.
Colin first accepted a D-level 15-person team-type mission called "Horror Circus".
The requirement is to find the core, restart some of the past arrangements, and stabilize this special small area again.
The park is quite large, probably no smaller than some common cities. It has various rules. If you don't follow them, you will be discovered by various anomalies in the circus and then be attacked crazily by some strange and terrifying things.
Of course, this situation does not apply to Colin.
Abnormal attacks in the circus are to approach and stab in a strange way, or to imitate, or to transform into a shadow, air, etc. and float towards you.
But these are nothing compared to the Bonfire.
Colin was just keeping the bonfire burning around him as normal, and their methods were broken.
In this strong state, the anomalies could only watch in "despair" as Colin and others found a hard and special black crystal along the way.
Injecting new energy and restarting the old arrangements, all the abnormalities have returned to the circus...
Become a character similar to "NPC".
The most time-consuming part of the whole process is finding the specific location of this core.
"Large and complex tasks aren't as complicated as I thought."
Colin made a brief comment.
Upon hearing this, some entered the instance, but separated to search for the core, and were embarrassed by the saturated and intensive attack, resulting in injured employees.
Soon, as the incident ended, we returned to reality.
"Not bad, more than 3,700 points."
Colin took a quick look at the parchment and saw that most of the people's points were around 1,000, with the lowest being 700 and the highest being 1,800.
But no matter how much it is, according to what we agreed before, 50% must be given to him.
In addition, 20 percent had to be "lent" to him.
If there is a thousand points, Colin will get 700 points.
"Life finally has some hope..."
Colin, who was tormented by the task requirements, finally felt more confident when he saw the tens of thousands of points he had received.
If you can earn this amount for every large-scale task.
Then after two months, the points should be enough to meet the needs of repair props...
At this moment, the only thing Colin needs to worry about is that there are not enough ordinary tasks that can be taken on actively, which are said to be large and difficult cases, but in fact can be completed by just going shopping.
