Chapter 557: Go and Make a Cheat
Lu Yiming was imagining a bright future with Li Yiwen when the cell phone on the table rang.
"Hello?"
Li Quanwang's voice came from the phone: "Zha Zha Ming, what are you doing? Let's have a midnight snack together tonight. I'm telling you, I found a small skewers shop that tastes really good. Let's go there for a drink tonight."
Due to the popularity of "Legend of Mir 2", Tongxin Internet Cafe is now almost full 24 hours a day, so it has to plan to open several more chain stores. As one of the shareholders, although he only holds 10% of the shares, Li Quanwang's monthly share is a figure that 99% of the people dare not even think about.
Therefore, Li Quanwang is now enjoying great success.
Lu Yiming said, "I'm still in Baiyun City. I was just discussing with my cousin about building an office building for me, Lu. You said that I'm the richest man in the mainland, but I don't even have my own skyscraper. Isn't that outrageous?"
“You want to build a skyscraper?”
When Li Quanwang heard this, he immediately became interested: "That must be outrageous, build it up, build it up. How can I be absent from such a fun thing? You wait, I'm going to buy a plane ticket now, I want to go back and take a look too."
Lu Yiming laughed and scolded, "Come on, do you think a skyscraper can be built in a snap? You will be left alone when you come back tonight."
"Then I don't care, just wait for me."
That night, Li Quanwang took the nearest flight back to Baiyun City and ran to Lu Yiming's villa to watch the fun.
"Are you really planning to build a skyscraper? It's going to cost a lot of money, right?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Why would I lie to you? I asked someone to calculate it, it's not expensive. If we build about 100 floors, the total price will be just over 8 billion, which is acceptable."
Although Li Quanwang now has some assets, he is only a multi-millionaire at best. But Lu Yiming wanted 8 billion to build an office building, which scared him to death.
"So expensive? You can accept that? You're really arrogant now. Tell me the truth, how much money do you have?"
"Haha, well, I'm hungry. Let's go get some midnight snack. We can talk while we eat."
The two of them left the Bi Hai Long Ting, found a food stall, and started ordering.
"Lü Yiping and Xiao Qinghe are both studying in Baiyun City. Do you want to invite them? Having a midnight snack requires more people to create a good atmosphere."
After Li Quanwang sat down, he made a proposal to Lu Yiming.
Lu Yiming said: "Okay, give them a call and ask."
"good."
Li Quanwang called the two of them. When they heard that Lu Yiming had returned to Baiyun City and wanted to treat them to a midnight snack, they agreed without hesitation.
More than an hour later, Lu Yiping and Xiao Qinghe came over in a taxi.
"Lu Yiming!"
"Li Quanwang!"
"You two big bosses still remember us two little minions. I'm so touched."
Seeing Xiao Qinghe's boastful look, Lu Yiming couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Don't be ridiculous, no matter what the future looks like, we are classmates, this cannot be changed."
The two of them still call Lu Yiming by his name, which makes Lu Yiming feel very happy.
Hearing what Lu Yiming said, Lu Yiping smiled and said, "That's what you said. Since you're treating us, we're going to spend a lot of money tonight."
Lu Yiming said generously: "Eat and drink as much as you want, it's my treat."
Several people found a folding table at the door and sat down. Li Quanwang shouted, "Boss, order some food. Bring a case of beer first, and make sure it's cold."
The boss came over with a case of beer and asked enthusiastically, "What would you like to eat? There's a menu on the table, or you can go to the counter and get it yourself."
Lu Yiping urged, “Let’s go and get it ourselves.”
Xiao Qinghe took a plastic colander, picked up whatever he liked, and quickly filled a basin.
"That's about it. These are enough for now. I'll add more if you're not satisfied."
Lu Yiming shouted, "I want fried rice noodles with eggs and meat. I haven't had dinner yet."
After a while, the barbecues were served. Lv Yiping opened four bottles of beer and said, "Just drink from the bottles. It's too troublesome to drink from cups. Come on, two bosses, toast to you. I'll drink it. You guys can do whatever you want."
Li Quanwang smiled and said, "Lu Yiming is the big boss, and I am at most a small follower. Let me tell you, this guy plans to build a skyscraper in Baiyun City, and he asked for a budget of 8 billion. Do you think this is human language?"
"How much? Eight billion?"
"I feel like I'm getting drunk before I even drink this wine."
No matter whether it is Lu Yiping or Xiao Qinghe, they are both from very ordinary families. They have no idea what 8 billion is, they just know it’s a lot!
For ordinary people, the difference between 100 yuan and 10,000 yuan is very clear because they have a strong sense of it. But for 100 million and 1 billion yuan, they have no sense at all, and even think that the difference is not big, because no matter whether it is 100 million or 1 billion yuan, it is an unattainable number, and there is no reference in their minds at all.
"I really envy you guys. You can ask for hundreds of millions right away. We can't even think about it."
Xiao Qinghe suddenly became melancholy, and drank half a bottle of beer in one gulp. He said, "We are not like that. We are so old, but we still ask our family for living expenses."
Lu Yiping asked: "Lu Yiming, do you have any way to make money that is suitable for us two brothers?"
Lu Yiming said, "You two are still studying now, and your family doesn't need any living expenses, so why are you in such a hurry to make money?"
Li Quanwang said, "That's right. Aren't you two college students? You have living expenses, but are you still short of money?"
Xiao Qinghe smiled bitterly and said, "It's because I'm a college student that I'm short of money."
Lv Yiping also complained, "It costs money to date, it costs money to go out and have fun, and what can you do these days without spending money? But it's not easy to ask for money from your family, so we want to ask if there is any business suitable for college students like us to do."
Lu Yiming was very happy to come up with an idea to help the two of them make some money, after all, he had nothing to lose. He was not a greedy person and would not think of making all the money himself.
Lu Yiming pondered for a moment before speaking, "Well, it's hard to say, what are your specialties?"
Lv Yiping said: "Does being good at the game count? I tell you I'm super lucky, the chance of getting a bonus when playing games is super high."
Xiao Qinghe sighed, "When I was in high school, I knew everything about astronomy and geography, but when I entered university, I realized that having wealth is worse than having talent. Your good luck in playing games is nothing."
College is more realistic than high school. Basically, all the pretty girls are picked up by the few rich second-generations in the school. Even if you are talented, you still can't beat those who drive BMWs on a bicycle, so Xiao Qinghe and Lu Yiping both realized that they can't do without money.
But they don’t know how to make money. After all, they have never been taught this in school since they were young.
As a reborn person, no one knows the importance of money better than Lu Yiming. This is a money society. As the saying goes, if you are poor in a busy city, no one will care about you. If you are rich in a remote mountain area, you will have distant relatives. People nowadays are very realistic. If you don't have money, who will care about you?
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Being able to play games is of course a special skill! What games are you playing now?"
"Legend of Mir 2!"
Xiao Qinghe spoke first.
"Wow, this game is so fun. Now everyone who goes to the Internet cafe plays this game."
Lu Yiming was not surprised that both of them were playing "Legend of Mir 2". He said, "You can make money from this game. Did you hear about the news that a wealthy player spent 500,000 yuan to buy a paralysis ring?"
Lu Yiping said with envy: "Of course I heard about it! Damn, half a million, why the hell can't I come across this? I'm so lucky in playing games, but I've never gotten a paralysis ring. If I get one, why would I worry about the money? I can just buy a house and a car and live a carefree life. This is real overnight wealth!"
Lu Yiming said: "I was the one who bought the ring."
"puff……"
Xiao Qinghe sprayed the beer he had just drunk all over the floor.
"What did you say? You were the one who spent half a million dollars to buy the paralysis ring?"
"You are indeed the richest man. Only rich people like you would spend so much money on playing games."
Lu Yiming said, "No, it looks like I spent half a million, but in fact, I made a lot of half a million with this half a million."
The two were immediately confused.
After all, they had no knowledge of Nie He's financial expertise and didn't understand the ins and outs of it at all.
Lu Yiming did not keep the secret and said directly: "Anyway, you should be able to see from this incident that playing games can indeed make money."
"Just like what Lu Yiping said just now, as long as you swipe out a paralysis ring, your troubles will be solved instantly. And the equipment drop rate of the game is here. As long as you swipe enough, there will always be a chance for it to drop."
"Now there are more than just paralysis rings in the game. There are also other equipment with good attributes that rich players are willing to buy with cash. For example, level 8 and level 9 suits. It is easy to get level 1 and level 2 equipment by killing monsters. Five level 1 clothes can be combined into one level 2, and five level 2 clothes can be combined into a level 3. This is not difficult, and there is no failure. It is just time-consuming and labor-intensive."
"You can find a few people in the school who are good at computers and make some simple plug-ins, such as automatic killing of monsters, automatic drinking of medicine, automatic picking up of equipment, etc. With these basic functions, you only need to log in to the game, enter the dungeon and turn on the plug-in, and you can be online 24 hours a day. You can sell the equipment to rich players. Isn't this a way to make money?"
When Lu Yiping and Xiao Qinghe heard this, they suddenly understood.
Lu Yiping slapped his forehead and said, "Right, why didn't we think of that? The main problem now is that playing games is tiring! You can't stand it if you don't eat or drink for a day! And it's really boring to kill monsters, just pressing the same few buttons over and over again. If there is an auxiliary tool, it will be very easy! Then you can open several accounts on one computer and just hang up to grind equipment. If you are lucky enough to get a top-quality equipment, you will become rich!"
Lu Yiming said, "Right, you two can form a gold-making studio, find a computer expert to work with you on a plug-in, and then sell the top-quality equipment to the local tycoon players, and throw the junk equipment into the system store and exchange it for gold coins. I remember that some people also accept gold coins in cash."
"Lu Yiming, you are amazing! No wonder you can make so much money! When we play games, we just think about how to have fun, but you can actually think of how to use games to make money!"
"That's right. You've made me so excited. I'm going to go to school tomorrow to find a computer expert to work with."
The two men were so excited thinking that a smooth road to wealth was right before their eyes that they couldn't help themselves and wanted to go to school right away.
"No need to say anything, everything is in the wine. Lu Yiming, come, I toast you, I'll drink it, you can do whatever you want."
Xiao Qinghe tilted his head back and gulped down a bottle of cold beer in one breath.
Lu Yiming drank half the bottle in one gulp and clapped his hands, "You have a good alcohol tolerance. Come, eat some food. The butter here is a specialty."
Li Quanwang picked up a chicken drumstick and said with a smile: "I still like to eat this, it has more meat."
A few people were eating and drinking for several hours without realizing it, and they had drunk three boxes of beer.
Lu Yiming called Zhao Tiezhu and asked him to prepare some barbecue and a few boxes of cold beer, and put them all in the trunk of the Audi.
"Send them both back to school first, then you take these back and share them with your brothers."
"Thank you, boss."
Walking on the tree-lined path of the Bihailongting community, Lu Yiming burped with satisfaction.
I'll go back and take a hot bath and then go to sleep. Life is so wonderful.
Li Quanwang asked doubtfully, "There is a question I have been unable to figure out."
Lu Yiming asked: "What's the problem?"
Li Quanwang said, "I remember you said that Legend of Mir 2 would resolutely crack down on all kinds of unofficial cheats, right? Why did you teach Xiao Qinghe and Lu Yiping to make cheats? Aren't you digging your own grave?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "The cheats for Legend of Mir 2 will appear sooner or later. If they don't do it, someone else will. We just need to increase the crackdown and punishment. I will strictly control the use of auxiliary tools in Legend of Mir 2, but at the same time, I will cultivate the awareness of 'cheating' among computer experts. Let them know that cheating can make money. Have you noticed that there have been rumors about several games recently?"
Li Quanwang said: "Recently, several games are in internal testing and are preparing to be launched. But what does this have to do with plug-ins?"
Lu Yiming said cunningly, "These domestic online game companies basically have agents for their games. They don't have the technology or determination to fight against cheats, so they will be exhausted by cheats in the end. I banned the cheats in "Legend of Mir 2", but they can't ban the cheats in those games! Once a game is flooded with cheats, it's doomed."
Li Quanwang understood immediately: "Oh my god! As long as there is profit in this, any new game will definitely have cheats! Their game has just been introduced, and it hasn't even been tested yet, and you've already set your sights on them? You're too shady."
Lu Yiming said disapprovingly: "Business war, isn't it just you cheating me and I cheating you?"
For Junzi Interactive Entertainment, a company that develops games entirely independently, it is not difficult to ban cheats.
But for other competitors who want to get a piece of the online game market, it is a fatal blow. After all, as a publishing company, its technical strength in gaming must be extremely poor.
Besides, even if the technology exists, people may not be willing to spend the effort to fix game loopholes. The communication costs for both parties alone are terribly high, and the actual operation is absolutely terrifying.
Therefore, the final result is often that game plug-ins are completely rampant, the game's lifespan is greatly overdrawn, and ultimately leads to a large number of players leaving, server closures, and being eliminated from the market.
Lu Yiming's move was undoubtedly to use plug-ins to drive out the bad money with the good money, blocking the way for those who wanted to make money in Xiaguo by acting as agents for foreign games. It was clearly telling all game practitioners that if you want to make money, go back and do your own research and development. Want to make quick money by acting as an agent? I will kill you first.
"Okay, if you have nothing else to do, go back and take a shower and go to bed. I'll be back to school soon."
"Um."
The next morning at 9:30, Lu Yiming had just returned from morning exercise and had taken a shower. He felt refreshed and was about to chat on the phone with Shi Qingxue when Zhao Tiezhu called him: "Mr. Lu, Director Shi is at the gate of the community and said he wants to visit you."
When Lu Yiming heard the name, he suddenly had a headache: "Why is he so persistent? He has come here several times in the past few days, right? Isn't he annoying? Okay, I get it, you bring him over."
Ten minutes later, Zhao Tiezhu brought the man named Shi Jinhua to Lu Yiming's villa.
When Shi Jinhua saw Lu Yiming, he immediately smiled and put a gift box in front of Lu Yiming, saying, "Mr. Lu, good morning. Have you considered the investment?"
Facing this guy who was like a dog-skin plaster, Lu Yiming was helpless.
He was from the Provincial Investment Promotion Bureau and this was his first visit to solicit investment. After Lu Yiming understood his intention, he said he would consider it.
This was originally a polite remark, but Shi Jinhua took it seriously and came over the next day to ask if he had made up his mind. I don't know whether to say he is stubborn or thick-skinned. However, Lu Yiming actually admires this kind of ruthless person who can even throw his face to the ground and trample on it for the sake of local economy and people's livelihood.
At least Lu Yiming thought he couldn't do it to this extent.
After careful consideration, Lu Yiming felt that Shi Jinhua's determination to achieve his goal made it possible for him to try to cooperate with him, so he said, "I've considered it. Director Shi, to be honest, I have a project that I'm about to launch. Since you are so sincere, I will tell you about my project and you can give me some advice."
When Shi Jinhua heard this, he immediately felt that his hard work was not in vain, and said in surprise: "Of course! I wonder what project Mr. Lu has?"
Lu Yiming said: "I plan to build a group headquarters building in Baiyun City."
Shi Jinhua immediately said, "Building a building is great. If Mr. Lu needs any help from me, just let me know. I will never say no."
