Hu Die Lan

Chapter 640 Visiting Samsara

Chapter 153 The Fifth Month in S City

The temperature in S City in May was just right, neither too hot nor too cold, and the humid air was very comfortable.

However, Ye Xiu, who spent most of his time indoors, was quite oblivious to changes in the climate and didn't notice any difference. After getting off the plane, he hailed a taxi and went straight to the Samsara Club without even checking into a hotel.

His failed deal with Zhan Loulan had made Ye Xiu more cautious. However, after discussing it repeatedly with Wei Chen and the others, they felt that Samsara had no reason to refuse. Their intention to win the championship this season was very clear, and it could be seen from their publicity during the two weeks of rest before the finals.

Rejecting the skill point guide was impossible; the only possibility was refusing to buy it out. Ye Xiu and the others had discussed this issue for a long time in the past few days. If they didn't buy it out, it would be obvious that Ye Xiu and the others would visit other teams to make deals, which wouldn't improve Samsara's situation. After thinking about it, everyone still felt that Samsara's chances of buying it out were quite high.

The Samsara Club was quickly reached, but Ye Xiu had no intention of directly barging in. After all, his face couldn't be used as a pass. Wei Chen's worries weren't unnecessary; he was very likely to be kicked out by the security guards.

At a public phone booth outside the club, Ye Xiu made a call and then waited outside the Samsara Club. Before long, a person rushed out of the club, looking around. Ye Xiu waved at him, and the person quickly greeted him.

"Long time no see." They greeted each other.

Tong Lin, a former Glory professional player, played for the Samsara Club. Three years ago, after retiring, he joined the logistics and technical department of the Samsara Club.

The Glory professional circle wasn't big, with only 200 or so people. In the early days, the scale wasn't even this big. There weren't 20 teams, and each team didn't have ten or so players, so there were even fewer people back then, and the professional players were more familiar with each other. Ye Xiu, who had been in the league since the beginning, was known to everyone, and the relationship was just a matter of depth. Some people just nodded in greeting, while others were more chatty.

Tong Lin was one of the latter.

Although he wasn't a god-level player, his love for Glory wasn't less than anyone else's. After retiring and joining the skill department, he also worked tirelessly. Ye Xiu contacted this old friend, of course, to make it easier to deliver a message and get in the door. The decision-making power of the transaction was far from Tong Lin's responsibility.

The two exchanged pleasantries and entered the gate of Samsara. With Tong Lin greeting him, the security guard didn't ask any questions. When Ye Xiu was wandering around before, they had been wary of him. After all, the playoffs were approaching, and they couldn't let anything disturb the active preparations of the professional players. The club had stricter requirements for all aspects of its affairs these days.

"What exactly is it that you want? You were being so mysterious on the phone," Tong Lin asked as he led Ye Xiu.

"It's definitely a good thing for your Samsara," Ye Xiu said.

"Hehe, what good can you bring to our Samsara?" Tong Lin laughed.

"You'll know when I show you in a moment," Ye Xiu said.

"Alright!" Tong Lin didn't ask any more questions and directly took Ye Xiu to his office on the third floor of the club's technical department.

"Tell me, how are you going to demonstrate? I'm waiting to see!" Tong Lin said with a smile after inviting Ye Xiu to sit down.

"Do you have a Glory account here?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Would you believe me if I said I didn't?" Tong Lin said, "What class do you want?"

"The class doesn't matter, it's best if there are few quests completed, the fewer the better," Ye Xiu said.

"I really haven't paid attention to that," Tong Lin said.

"Then just grab two!" Ye Xiu said.

Tong Lin pulled open his desk drawer and randomly grabbed two account cards.

"Just these, or should we go to the lab?" Tong Lin asked.

"The lab?" Ye Xiu smiled.

"Everyone calls it that, it's a habit," Tong Lin said.

"Let me show you here first!" Ye Xiu said, getting up and walking over. Tong Lin immediately gave up his computer, leaving only the two account cards there.

"Are these two accounts yours personally?" Ye Xiu asked, picking up a card at random.

"Personal," Tong Lin said.

"Then you're getting a good deal," Ye Xiu said with a smile.

Tong Lin was still confused. Ye Xiu had already skillfully logged into the game. Ye Xiu didn't care about Tong Lin's character's name, server, class, or equipment. He just looked at the character's location and immediately ran in a direction he had in mind, asking Tong Lin, "Do you remember which quests your character has done and which ones haven't?"

"This... I can't remember most of them," Tong Lin said.

"Then let's try!" Ye Xiu said.

"What exactly are you going to do?" Tong Lin asked.

"Don't worry, you'll find out in a moment." Ye Xiu was keeping him in suspense and didn't say, controlling Tong Lin's character and running towards a quest location he remembered.

When he talked to the quest-giving NPC, it was a coincidence that Tong Lin hadn't done this quest yet.

As soon as Tong Lin saw that Ye Xiu had accepted a quest, he quickly came over to see, "What quest is it?"

Ye Xiu opened the quest panel and showed Tong Lin the quest name.

Tong Lin looked at it, recalling it over and over in his mind, but he really couldn't remember anything special about this quest. Then he watched Ye Xiu play the game, following the steps of the quest one by one.

"You're just running to my place to help my account do quests?" Tong Lin said with a smile.

"Don't get excited yet, the exciting part is later," Ye Xiu said.

"What exactly are you going to do! Stop keeping me in suspense!" Tong Lin was also anxious!

As a result, Ye Xiu became even more unhurried. Actually, he was just afraid of making a mistake. After all, this thing was made mechanically precise by Teacher Mei Guang and his student, and there couldn't be any carelessness.

"Pay attention!!" Finally, the quest was about to reach the final stage, and Ye Xiu suddenly called out to Tong Lin.

"I've been paying attention!" Tong Lin said from the side.

Clicking on the character to complete the quest, a row of reward words flashed by. Ye Xiu wasn't disappointed. The skill book reward was impressively among them. Of course, the quest he chose to demonstrate had a very high probability. After Mei Guang and his student precisely tossed around this string of quests, the data conclusion they came to was a 57.258% probability.

For skill books, this probability was simply terrifyingly high.

"Skill book!!!" Tong Lin had been patiently watching carefully, and the flashing reward didn't escape his eyes. He clearly saw those three words. He immediately realized that this skill book must be the suspense Ye Xiu had been selling all along. He hadn't seen anything else.

"A 25-point skill book, how is it? Are you excited?" Ye Xiu clicked open Tong Lin's character's inventory, and a dazzling 25-point skill book was lying there.

"This isn't a coincidence?" Tong Lin's brain had already started to work quickly.

"It's a coincidence, and it's not a coincidence," Ye Xiu said.

"You're selling me out again. Tell me straight what you mean!" Tong Lin shouted.

"It's a coincidence because this skill book isn't 100% guaranteed to be obtained. It's not a coincidence because I used the correct method to give it a chance to appear. If it weren't for me, I don't know how many times you'd have to do this quest to get this reward," Ye Xiu said.

"Let me see!" Tong Lin pushed Ye Xiu away, manipulated the character, and looked at the inventory again, confirming that it was indeed a skill book. He also flipped through the records and confirmed that the skill book was indeed a reward from the quest just now.

Tong Lin then opened the website and searched for the quest, but he didn't find any information about the quest being related to skill books.

"Don't waste your time. It took an old buddy many years of effort to research how to farm it like this," Ye Xiu said.

"Who is it?" Tong Lin asked quickly.

"Wei Chen," Ye Xiu said.

"It's that guy!" Tong Lin was also a veteran player of the previous generation, the former captain of the Blue Rain team. He couldn't not know him.

"You mean to say that he figured out that doing this quest requires a special method to have a chance to get the hidden reward of the skill book?" Tong Lin, who was now in charge of logistics and technology, had a faster understanding of this aspect.

"That's right," Ye Xiu nodded.

"What's the probability?" Tong Lin asked.

"Fifty percent, probably!" Ye Xiu said.

"How was this data obtained?" Tong Lin asked.

"I'm afraid it'll scare you to death if I say it, so I won't say it," Ye Xiu said.

Tong Lin rolled his eyes. "If you don't say it now, someone will definitely ask later."

Tong Lin was also a senior in the industry. As soon as he saw what was going on, he immediately guessed seven or eight parts of Ye Xiu's intention.

"There's a top student with us who used some mathematical knowledge to calculate it. You know, we definitely don't understand this kind of thing. Anyway, we just listened to him and then did as he said. We don't have the ability to actually test this probability. If you're interested, you can do a large-scale experiment in the future. Don't you have some kind of laboratory?" Ye Xiu said.

"Actually, the probability isn't important. What's important is that it's really effective. You understand what I mean, right?" Tong Lin said.

"Understood." Ye Xiu said calmly with a smile, "I believe it will be effective."

"This is only a 50% chance. As long as it's not 100%, it's possible that it's ineffective," Tong Lin said.

"But this is only one of them. You don't think I'd just rush to your Samsara with such a quest, would you?" Ye Xiu said.

"Then how many do you have?" Tong Lin asked.

"All the quests add up to 1000 skill points!" Ye Xiu said.

"Damn!" Tong Lin's eyes widened instantly. The next second, he rushed over and grabbed Ye Xiu, as if he was afraid he would run away. "Let's go, let's go, you come with me."

"Where are we going?" Ye Xiu asked knowingly.

"What do you think?" Tong Lin certainly wouldn't answer.

Dragging Ye Xiu out of the office, down to the third floor, and to the second floor, he went straight to the end of the floor.

Halfway through the training room, a Samsara player was holding a glass of water, as if relaxing, wandering around the entrance of the training room. Seeing Tong Lin come over, he naturally recognized him and politely called out "Senior." Tong Lin smiled and nodded. The guy behind him, who was being tightly grabbed like a thief and whose walking was distorted, also smiled and nodded.

Who is this guy? I called him senior, and he's just blindly agreeing? He looks a little familiar. Is he the chef who delivers food in the restaurant?

The player didn't say anything, but he was guessing in his heart, but it was only for a moment. He immediately remembered who this person was. With a moment of distraction, his hand tilted, and the boiling water in the glass spilled out. His hand was scalded and he involuntarily let go.

With a crisp "crack" sound, the glass shattered. The player was a little at a loss, but he was still looking at the back view of Tong Lin dragging him away.

Hearing the sound behind him, Ye Xiu and Tong Lin also turned their heads to look. Seeing that it was just a small matter of breaking a glass, they continued on their way. The other players in the training room heard the sound outside the door and ran out to see what had happened. They saw the player standing outside the door in a daze.

Seeing that it was just a broken glass, everyone was about to disperse, but they saw the player raise his right hand, pointing at the figure that had already turned the corner. "Ye... Ye Qiu!!"

"What?" The players didn't hear clearly.

"Ye Qiu, it's Ye Qiu! I saw Senior Tong pulling Ye Qiu past just now."

"Senior Tong, pulling Ye Qiu?" The players were a little confused. They wouldn't think anything of Tong Lin, but Ye Qiu, how could this person appear in their Samsara at this time? The players' gossip souls were burning.

"Where did they go?" Vice-Captain Jiang Botao asked.

"That way." The player pointed.

"The manager's office?" After turning the corner of the corridor, there didn't seem to be any other place to go except the manager's office.

"Let's go take a look?" Jiang Botao turned his head, but said to Zhou Zekai. The two of them were the team's captain and vice-captain. These days, it was more appropriate to have some status to watch gossip.

Before Zhou Zekai could say anything, the phone in the training room rang. A new player ran over to answer it, said "uh-huh" a few times, hung up, ran over to Zhou Zekai and Jiang Botao. "Captain, Vice-Captain, the manager wants you to go over."

Jiang Botao and Zhou Zekai exchanged glances. Everyone felt that it must be related to Ye Qiu's visit. Just as the two were about to go over, the phone rang again. The new player ran over to answer it again, and rushed out to find Zhou Zekai and Jiang Botao. "The manager wants you to bring your accounts with you."

"Bring our accounts? What is he going to do?" Everyone was racking their brains. Zhou Zekai and Jiang Botao were also puzzled, but they still returned to the training room, took their account cards, and brought them along.

"Please come in!"

After knocking on the door outside the manager's office, the two entered after hearing the manager's greeting. The manager wasn't sitting at the office, but on the sofa in the reception area, with Tong Lin on the left and right, leaving a person in the middle.

"Don't need me to introduce, right?" The manager said with a smile.

"It's Little Zhou and Little Jiang, haha, you guys played very well this season!" Ye Xiu smiled and greeted the two.