84: Can you lend me 100,000 yuan?

“Hahaha, Richard is the strongest! I was almost broke, but I bet everything on Richard in the last round and won 300,000 colorless cubes!”

“You curse when you lose and praise when you win. You people are too real. The Designer didn't force you to play!”

“Exactly, I didn't force you to play…”

At three in the morning, Xu Lian looked at the millions of comments on Weibo and smiled helplessly.

As he expected, after the horse racing event went live yesterday, a large number of players lost everything and immediately started to attack him.

Actually, this game makes people easily addicted.

As long as you play the first round, whether you win or lose, you can't help but play the second round, completely unable to stop.

What's more, the number of Dungeon & Fighter players is twice as many as in the last world.

It would be strange if no one came to curse him.

Just then, Xu Lian's communication software rang.

He opened it and saw a message from Yu Waner:

“Boss, can you lend me 100,000 yuan? I just lost all my money gambling on horse racing.”

Upon seeing this message, Xu Lian was stunned.

You know, it had only been two days since payday, and this guy actually lost everything in one day?

“No way, you put your entire 100,000 yuan salary this month into horse racing?”

Xu Lian asked in disbelief.

“Uh, not just my salary, I also lost all my savings, a total of over 200,000…”

Xu Lian: “Don't call me boss, you're the boss. Losing 200,000 in one day, and in a game no less, I'm not as rich as you.”

Yu Waner was silent for a while.

Yu Waner: “Who told you to create this event? I couldn't stop after winning once.

And that damn Richard in the last round made me lose 3 million colorless cubes!!”

“I've transferred the money to you, but please, don't gamble again. Even I wouldn't touch this stuff.

Just focus on work from now on.”

Xu Lian didn't know if she would listen to him, but he still transferred a month's salary to her.

Although Yu Waner sometimes gave Xu Lian a headache, either being late or secretly playing games during work, she was still very serious when it came to her tasks.

The tasks assigned to her were always completed perfectly, without any delay.

Yu Waner: “Hehe, don't worry, if I gamble again, I'm a dog.

I'm already in a taxi and will be at the company soon.”

“Alright, hurry up. We have new employees interviewing today.”

After getting out of the taxi, Xu Lian stretched, feeling refreshed.

“Looks like I need to make time to buy a car.”

Looking at the endless stream of traffic, Xu Lian couldn't help but sigh.

He had been swamped with work at the company for the past few months, completely neglecting his personal life, relying on taxis for his daily commute.

With his current assets, he could easily buy a car and a house, living in Jianghai City was more than comfortable.

“Hmm, since I'm buying a car, why not pick one from the system?”

Xu Lian remembered that the system had many high-tech sports cars, and they cost very few game coins.

He had seen many sports cars in the real world and was no longer excited by them. It would be better to find a black-tech vehicle in the system to play with.

“I'll check the system tonight.”

Xu Lian secretly looked forward to it.

As soon as he entered the company, Qin Feixu came over with two young men.

“President Xu, these are the two I mentioned to you before. They are technical personnel responsible for game development.”

“This is Chen Li, specializing in graphics rendering production.

When he was at Yunteng Company, he participated in the design of almost all 16K ultra-clear game graphics.”

“This is Liu Kan, mainly responsible for code updates. He participated in the programming work for most of Yunteng Company's top ten games.”

“President Xu.”

The two enthusiastically shook Xu Lian's hand.

These two were core technical personnel in Yunteng Company's game department and had always worked under Qin Feixu.

As Yunteng Company's game department gradually declined, the company's major shareholders had already begun to shift their business direction.

The two understood that if they stayed there, they would eventually be laid off, so they had already started looking for a new employer.

Qin Feixu heard that they were looking for other game companies and simply poached them directly.

Aoyou Tianxia Game Company was gaining strong momentum in the market, with almost no rivals, and its future development was bright. It would definitely not be a flash in the pan.

More importantly, Xu Lian had publicly stated a long time ago that his company would not accept any external capital intervention.

This company would definitely not be like those enterprises that hung out a sheep's head to sell dog meat, pretending to make games but actually just wanting to cash in on the industry's popularity and run away.

This place happened to meet their professional ideals, and they could fully display their talents here.

Because of this, the two did not hesitate to complete their resignation procedures and quickly joined Xu Lian's team.

“Hello, hello.”

Looking at the two bespectacled, scholarly tech geeks in front of him, Xu Lian nodded in satisfaction.

The company was short-staffed, and with these two joining, getting minecraft out before the end of summer vacation should be stable.

Not to mention that Chen Li was an expert in graphics rendering. If a VR version of the game was launched in the future, this guy could totally handle it on his own.

Thinking of this, Xu Lian couldn't help but smile, “Alright, let's chat.”

He led the two into the office.

…

The three talked in the office for half an hour.

Xu Lian described in detail the company's future development direction and subsequent expansion plans.

He also specifically emphasized that his company was an enterprise solely focused on games and would definitely not involve itself in other fields.

Even if there was expansion, it would only be through cooperation, and he would firmly reject any capital company's investment.

Chen Li and Liu Kan nodded frequently, clearly very satisfied with such a commitment.

Subsequently, the two happily signed their employment contracts.

Xu Lian's team gained two more technical backbone members.

“President Xu, you just said you want us to be responsible for a new game. I want to ask, what type of game are you planning to make this time?” Chen Li was already a huge fan of Ouyou Company.

Whether it was Dungeon & Fighter or crossfire, he played them with great enjoyment.

Especially Dungeon & Fighter, he regarded it as a masterpiece! From the feel of the controls, skill design, to the story background, every detail was impeccable, truly a pinnacle of the gaming world.

Therefore, when he learned that he and Liu Kan would be in charge of a brand new project, he was exceptionally excited and eager to know what style the new game would be.

Xu Lian pondered for a while, thinking that since both had signed contracts and were considered official employees, revealing some information in advance was not a problem.

So he led them out of the office, and also called Qin Feixu and Lin Weixin, and they all walked into the meeting room together.