“This isn’t so complicated. To sum it up, he sold someone out and then made them take the blame, right, Shui Shen?” Lu Ke said.

“I don’t like your wording,” Shui Shen said seriously. “Strictly speaking, the project he was running at the time was my bargaining chip. I was dealing with the matter, not the person. It just so happened that he was the project manager, and it just so happened that he became the target of everyone's suspicion, so the blame fell on him. Heaven and earth, my conscience is clear, I didn't plan it that way. I'm not so-and-so!”

“What exactly happened? Stop talking in riddles. Explain it clearly,” Gu Fei said.

“How can I explain this to you!” Shui Shen said, amiably putting his arm around Gu Fei's shoulders. “Once upon a time, your brother was a middleman in the online gaming world…”

“Tch…” Lu Ke scoffed.

“Kill her!” Shui Shen pleaded to Gu Fei.

“Really?” Gu Fei reached for his sword.

“No, no…” Shui Shen was frightened. Why did this guy have no sense of humor?

“Just kidding,” Gu Fei laughed. “Or should we let Lu Ke tell it?”

“Hmph, let him tell it himself. I don’t have that kind of time,” Lu Ke said.

“Then don’t interrupt!” Shui Shen cleared his throat solemnly. “Where was I? Right, once upon a time, your brother was a middleman in the online gaming world. This is a highly technical job, requiring sharp market insight, a spirit of fearless advance, and, more importantly, accurate intelligence from multiple sources. To do this job well, I applied for several alt accounts and mingled in the popular service areas where the major game studios were active. One day, in a certain server of the online game *Xianxia Zhuan*, I discovered this kid Wu Ye, leading a group of studio lackeys to sweep up goods. By the way, do you know that game?”

“No,” Gu Fei shook his head.

“Tsk… you don’t know… you wouldn’t understand even if I explained it in detail! Do you know what ‘sweeping up goods’ means?”

“No…” Gu Fei said.

“What are you asking about if you don’t know anything?” Shui Shen complained. Gu Fei reached for his sword, and Shui Shen nodded. “If you don’t know, you have to learn. Young people all come from this…”

“This ‘sweeping up goods’ often happens before some major updates in the game. But at the time, *Xianxia Zhuan* didn't have any system announcements about updates. For such behavior to occur, the studio must have received some inside information. As a middleman, I was selling the intelligence gleaned by these multi-faceted spies! After identifying the items that Wu Ye was sweeping up, I immediately logged into the alt accounts in several other studios and widely disseminated this information. As a result, all the studios where I had an account in *Xianxia Zhuan* came out to sweep up goods. This was originally exclusive inside information for Wu Ye's studio, but suddenly everyone knew about it. Of course, everyone knew there was an inside traitor. Unfortunately! At the time, their studio seemed to suspect Wu Ye of being the inside ghost. Actually, I didn’t figure out how they suspected him. It couldn’t be just because he was in charge of sweeping up goods, right? Anyway, I later heard that he was fired from the studio. Tsk tsk!” Shui Shen said.

After listening, Gu Fei was puzzled. “So, what benefit did you get from this?”

Shui Shen glanced at him and said, “That’s why I say you’re still a bit green! In that era, such intelligence about sweeping up goods was extremely valuable. Regardless of who provided the information, as long as it was accurate, the studios would give a bonus. Otherwise, where do you think Wu Ye's studio got their inside information? There were people inside the game who had dirty hands and leaked information for a bonus. I gave this information to five studios at once, collected five bonuses, and even got a profit share at the end. Isn't that enough benefit?”

“Of course,” Shui Shen paused and then added, “My main purpose wasn’t to get the bonus. I just didn’t like how the studios were always doing this and that in the game. Whatever they did, I wanted to stir up some trouble. Originally, one studio was quietly sweeping up goods, but now so many are starting to grab the goods. It's still uncertain how much those two items can sell for. The acquisition is raising the price because of the competition between the studios, which also thins out their profits.”

“Hmm…” Gu Fei nodded. Shui Shen’s plan was simple: use several alt accounts to transmit messages and stir up trouble. He was able to do it to this extent because the seeds he had sown had already blossomed and borne fruit. How to get so many alt accounts into each studio and gradually gain their trust, that process of planting and cultivating was the most difficult.

“No one knew it was me at the time. Later, one of my alt accounts was accidentally exposed, and my middleman empire collapsed in an instant. It really pained me for all my hard work over the years!” Shui Shen sighed.

“How could exposing one alt account bring out all the other alt accounts?” Gu Fei asked, puzzled.

“Ah, you don’t know. Sometimes I used two or even more alt accounts to perform a double act for others to see. People couldn't see the flaws when they didn't know the situation. But when they realized that one of them was an inside ghost, and then traced the past of the inside ghost, they were all pulled out one by one,” Shui Shen said.

“What kind of double act?” Gu Fei asked.

“It's simple. For example, today our negotiation is between two studios. I'm Wu Ye. I discovered such a project, so I suggested to the boss that I wanted to find a studio to cooperate with. The boss said, ‘Okay, go and contact them!’ Then I opened the Shui Shen account and said to the boss on this side that there was a certain project at that studio over there, and they wanted to cooperate with us. The boss also said, ‘Okay, go and take a look!’ So, Wu Ye went home and reported that he had contacted Shui Shen over there, and Shui Shen went home and reported that he had contacted Wu Ye. Alright, let's talk next! It's all me anyway. What's there to talk about? Just perform a double act!” Shui Shen said.

“You are so talented!!!” Gu Fei exclaimed.

Shui Shen was very ashamed. “No, I still haven't mastered it. Later, it was exposed on this matter. Once, five studios held a meeting and opened a chat group together. I opened five QQ accounts to go into battle and mediate from them. Damn it, I got dizzy for a moment and said the wrong thing on one account. Those dogs were really sharp-eyed. They actually discovered it from such a brief mistake and instantly pulled me up by the roots. It turned out that so many things that had been done still had some flaws. Now that there was a breakthrough, wasn't I being taken down in one fell swoop? Fortunately, I had the foresight to ask a half-baked hacker friend to disguise all the IP addresses, which was enough to fool those people. At the time, those guys claimed they were going to buy killers to chop me up. Damn it, I don't know if they hired them. You say you want to deal with me, how much money would you have to pay for a killer?”

As Shui Shen spoke, he began to fantasize. Gu Fei wiped his sweat and said, “So now you’re openly showing your face again. Aren't you afraid of people taking revenge?”

Shui Shen chuckled and said, “Times have changed! Of the studios that I used to hang out with, three have collapsed, two have changed bosses, and one is making a lot of foreign exchange. Only *Zhenxin* is now developing into a large scale. But now they are all regular big companies. How can they care about this old, broken thing? Hey, now it seems that there is no big hatred left, only Comrade Wu Ye's little resentment."

Wu Ye was indeed worthy of resentment. All along, Wu Ye had not offended anyone and had completely taken the blame for the things that Shui Shen had caused. Wu Ye, who was fired from the studio at the time, must have been full of grievances. In this kind of thing, even if Shui Shen was thoroughly exposed in the future, everyone's energy would be focused on strongly condemning Shui Shen, and no one would think of redressing the victim in this incident even a little bit. Shui Shen obviously had extreme prejudices against the studios and everyone in the studios, so he didn’t feel any guilt about indirectly harming Wu Ye. He was still excitedly admiring the reactions of the people involved after they saw him. He was really cruel enough. And Gu Fei, after understanding the whole story, was also cruel enough. He didn't even sympathize with Wu Ye at all. It was really because this guy's profit-seeking calculations during today's dealings with Wu Ye made Gu Fei very disapproving.

Wu Ye felt that Gu Fei and his team weren't very sincere about the cooperation, but he didn't expect that Gu Fei's team also felt that his behavior was even less sincere.

Gu Fei believed in his heart that if there were sincere negotiations, I would offer a psychological price, and you would offer a psychological price. Everyone would discuss it reasonably, and each would make concessions, so everyone would be happy. Cooperation, the original intention was to think about everyone getting rich together, that's what's called sincerity. Wu Ye was like that, with everything starting from his own interests, trying every means to squeeze the cooperating party to give up their interests. Gu Fei didn't think this was called sincerity at all.

Especially when Wu Ye said that Bai Shi Jing Lun was calculating decades of living expenses, and said that it had nothing to do with the current negotiations, Gu Fei felt it was even more of a joke. This kind of guy doesn't even want to think about why he's making money, he's just making money for the sake of making money. His vision is not enough to see at all.

Wu Ye felt that Gu Fei and his team didn't understand business and were not sincere. In fact, Gu Fei's vision was higher. Wu Ye's business methods were just petty in his opinion. He didn't have any style at all, and it was okay to do small businesses. He was not the material for doing big business at all. Gu Fei couldn't stand such a person. No matter how overflowing his sympathy was, it wouldn't be extended to him. At the moment, he only hoped that this deal could be made as soon as possible, so that he could help Bai Shi Jing Lun get rid of his current predicament.

“How about it, my past is considered glorious, right?” Shui Shen said at this time.

“Glorious,” Gu Fei nodded.

“It’s just a pity that in the current gaming environment, there’s no such opportunity anymore!” Shui Shen shook his head and sighed repeatedly.

Gu Fei was speechless. He didn't like Wu Ye very much, but he wouldn't raise his level of hatred to the point where he hated all the studios and the members of the studios like Shui Shen. This guy's realm was too high.

“Hey, what about the collapse of that guild? What exactly happened? Tell me as much as you can!” Gu Fei said.

“That matter, that matter is really too complicated…” Shui Shen said, “And… we don’t want to mention it either.”

“You’d better not ask Jian Gui either. I think he shouldn’t be willing to mention it either,” Lu Ke said to Gu Fei.

“Is that so…” Gu Fei had no choice but to agree. The four of them chatted for a few more words and left the Yingqi Barbecue Restaurant. Because it was a shop opened by a studio, Shui Shen had already gritted his teeth and prepared to ruthlessly cut the price, but Wu Ye had already instructed them to exempt them from the bill. So Shui Shen adjusted his policy and decided to come over every day to eat three heavy meals and then ask the other party to exempt him from the bill.

“If you have this free time, why don’t you help us with that market survey? We’ll share the bonus with you when the time comes,” Gu Fei said.

Shui Shen smiled and said, “I was just joking before. I’m not helping because this job is very time-consuming. I really don’t have time recently. The main city battle is getting closer and closer. The guilds in each main city are actively preparing. As the guild leader, I have to keep an eye on it 24/7. I say, hurry up and come over to teach us the efficient leveling method. Otherwise, come with me on the plane now, right? I have the ticket with me!”

“I’m still teaching the people from the Ten Guild Alliance here. The methods they’re learning are complicated, and I have to give them more guidance,” Gu Fei said with embarrassment. Shui Shen had just helped them a lot, and it was really hard to refuse this request. But the matter with Yun Zhong Mu hasn’t been settled yet! The dual leveling method is quite complicated, and Gu Fei still needs to give a lot of pointers from the side. While they have been messing around with Wu Ye, Yun Zhong Mu and the others have actually been waiting anxiously!

“Then I’ll leave you a ticket. You can fly over to me directly after you finish teaching them,” Shui Shen said.

“Okay!” Gu Fei nodded.

“Then we’ll go back first. Say hello to Jian Gui for me. If they’re free later, come over together!” Shui Shen said.

“Okay, I’ll ask them,” Gu Fei said. For them now, teleportation scrolls are really nothing. As long as there are goods, they don’t lack money.

Shui Shen and Lu Ke teleported back to Lin Yin City, and Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun also went in the direction of Youye Valley. While teaching the Ten Guild Alliance how to level up, Gu Fei also had to ask these well-connected experts if they had any trustworthy friends who could help with this market survey.

In Youye Valley, Yun Zhong Mu and his group continued to work up a sweat. The several efficient leveling methods that could be done solo were very skilled. The progress of dual leveling was not small either. At least they wouldn't be used as sandbags by the ghosts. As soon as Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun returned, a group of people rushed up. They didn't ask about efficient leveling methods anymore, and they all inquired about how the business was going. It's a matter of tens of millions! Who wouldn't care?

“It went smoothly,” Gu Fei said.

“Awesome! Too awesome!” Everyone praised. Jian Nan You and the others were even more envious. Look at other people! They make money in this game, and they can make tens of millions up and down just by doing some part-time business. We've been working hard, but we can only barely make a living. When will we be able to make tens of millions in one go? Then we can play games in peace in the next life… Jian Nan You and the others' pursuit was the same as Bai Shi Jing Lun's. They thought about earning enough money to play games in peace, and Bai Shi Jing Lun wanted to earn enough money to practice Kung Fu in peace.

“They now need us to do a survey and evaluation of the cost and profit of this deal with them. Bai Shi and I don’t know much about it! Da Nan, are you guys good at this?” Gu Fei directly asked Jian Nan You. With such a money-making opportunity, he wanted to try to win it for a few guys as well.

“This… I’m afraid it’s not as professional as their studio!” Jian Nan You and the others have never done such professional and detailed work, so they didn’t dare to respond casually.

“What kind of profession is needed! We two just don’t know anything. We’re afraid of being scammed by them. The guy on the other side is called Wu Ye. He’s trying to set a trap for you to slip into. He’s too insidious,” Gu Fei said.

As soon as they mentioned insidious, everyone couldn’t help but look at Han Jia Gong Zi. This kind of guy should be handed over to the team to deal with! As a result, everyone was greeted with Han Jia Gong Zi’s middle finger, and everyone quickly turned their heads back as if nothing had happened.

“That’s right, then leave it to us! We won’t be easily fooled,” Jian Nan You stated. He also believed that he was not an easy character to deal with.

“Then we’ll discuss how to divide the money when it’s earned back!” Gu Fei said. “I don’t know the exact amount yet!”

“Cunning enough, tying the income so closely, doesn’t that mean Comrade Da Nan has to desperately check you strictly?” Han Jia Gong Zi suddenly interjected.

Jian Nan You just smiled slightly. They had already seen Gu Fei’s character very clearly. They didn’t have to worry about money at all when they followed him. This person had no pursuit of money, and he always thought about everyone when there were benefits. It was really a blessing to have such a boss, so Jian Nan You and the others didn’t care whether Gu Fei had used some tricks as Han Jia Gong Zi pointed out. They just nodded and responded.

“Okay, then wait for news from Wu Ye! Lao Yun, how’s your training going? If there’s anything you want to ask about dual leveling, hurry up and ask. I’m rushing to the next one!” Gu Fei said.

“The next one? Where?” Yun Zhong Mu was alert. Every guild in Yueye City can be said to be their competitor. Of course, Yun Zhong Mu hoped that Gu Fei would no longer borrow business from Yueye City, but he also knew that this was just his wishful thinking. At this time, when he heard that Gu Fei had gone out for a while and had another next one, Yun Zhong Mu had no choice but to inquire first and pay attention to this opponent in the future.

“Shui Shen asked me to go over and give some guidance later!” Gu Fei said quickly when he saw everyone looking at him.

When Yun Zhong Mu heard that it was from Lin Yin City, his mood was very different. He quickly acted as if nothing had happened and asked Gu Fei about some questions about the dual leveling method with his partners.

The crowd of the Gongzi Elite Group were not in a good position to step forward at this time, so they asked in the channel, “Shui Shen’s side, how much money?”

“Beasts! Don’t you know Shui Shen? How can you be embarrassed to ask for money!” Gu Fei scorned.

Everyone quickly retorted, “We’re afraid you’re a beast and will ask for money even from Shui Shen.”

You Ge was muttering, “Why do I feel like since we agreed on the agreement with *Chongsheng Zijing*, we don’t seem to need them for our business anymore?”

“*Chongsheng Zijing*? What agreement?” Gu Fei wasn’t there at the time and didn’t know about this.

You Ge said it from beginning to end. Gu Fei heard that this was the case, but he didn’t care about it. He continued to urge Yun Zhong Mu and his men to level up, making You Ge worry alone! All the ideas with the *Chongsheng Zijing* were his. If he didn’t fulfill the last appointment, would these girls come looking for trouble? Thinking about how Bu Xiao was cleaned up by them in the tavern and even started playing dead, You Ge shuddered.

“What? Ao Huang and Za Cao???” On the other side, Gu Fei was chatting idly with Yun Zhong Mu while supervising the dual leveling. Yun Zhong Mu wanted to grasp some intelligence about the studios in Yueye City from it. The energy of the studios is now very large and must be paid attention to, especially when major events such as the main city battle are about to be launched. In the idle conversation, Ao Huang and Za Cao were naturally mentioned. Yun Zhong Mu didn't expect that these two of their guild's biggest competitors were actually members of the Yingqi Studio, and they were the top dogs in Yueye City. This was by no means good news for them.

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I didn’t ask for monthly tickets yesterday, and today it’s very silent. Is this forcing me? Is the difference between asking for votes and not asking for votes so big? In order to figure out this profound question, I decided to solemnly! Ask for monthly tickets today!!!!!!