Chapter 84 Comrades

"Comrades!" Seeing Little Cold Hands say that, Ye Xiu immediately began to earnestly educate everyone, "If our team wants to have long-term development, this is the right way of thinking and attitude. Everyone should correct their attitude! My Lord Grim, Steamed Bun's Steamed Bun Invasion, Little Tang's, Old Wei's, these accounts, how will they belong in the future? Like Old Wei, an old man, he will definitely retire after playing for a couple of years. Will the account just be taken away by him like that? Will we discuss it then? What if we can't come to an agreement then? Without accounts, what will the team use to compete then?"

"Also, Old Wei now has twenty million, and has already used two million to purchase materials as an investment in the team. When the team is officially registered in the future, and a club is established, what percentage of the shares will this investment count for?" Ye Xiu said.

"Two million is just my errand fee for you," Wei Chen said grandly.

"Okay, I already used two million to purchase materials as an investment in the team. When the team is officially registered in the future, and a club is established, what percentage of the shares will this investment count for?" Ye Xiu rephrased.

"Damn, you're really not polite," Wei Chen said.

"These things, if we fail to pass the Challenger League, then it's fine. But if we pass the Challenger League and officially enter the pro scene, then we must figure these things out. So that the team can continue to operate even without us," Ye Xiu said.

Wei Chen didn't speak. He had experienced the pro scene, and he had personally witnessed what Ye Xiu was talking about. Back in those early days, due to various immature ideas, there were many promising teams that only relied on passionate camaraderie, without standardized operations and management, and ultimately could not avoid collapsing.

To be honest, Wei Chen really liked this kind of passionate camaraderie. He was somewhat resistant to the standardized operations and management of Blue Rain back then. But the reality was a slap in the face. It's easy to share hardship but difficult to share wealth, this kind of thing, although despicable, was always staged again and again, and it was hard to find an exception.

Bringing up this kind of problem so bluntly, Wei Chen felt a little embarrassed listening to it, but he knew very well that Ye Xiu was absolutely right.

"Ahem!" Thinking that he was, after all, from the pro scene, and a senior, Wei Chen felt that he needed to set an example, so he cleared his throat and said, "What's there to say? My account belongs to the team. That's settled."

"Mine's fine too!" Tang Rou said immediately. Although she didn't have experience in the pro scene, this girl had always been clear-headed. Moreover, the situation Ye Xiu was talking about wasn't unique to the pro scene; it was a very common phenomenon. Tang Rou obviously understood the reasoning behind it, and handed over the character in her hand without any hesitation.

"What does that mean?" When it came to Comrade Steamed Bun, he was confused, but he dared to express his opinion without understanding the situation. This was Steamed Bun's style, so Steamed Bun quickly said, "Anyway, whatever you guys do, I'll do too. Does that mean my account belongs to the team too?"

"Good job, Steamed Bun!!" Wei Chen immediately praised him.

"Right!" Steamed Bun was happy.

"Boss, look, from now on, these accounts are all yours," Ye Xiu said to Chen Guo.

"Ah..." Chen Guo didn't react for a moment.

"Don't screw us over!" Ye Xiu said.

"What are you saying!" Chen Guo was angry. This guy dared to question her character!

"Now that the accounts are being used by the team, if you guys want to take them back in the future, would I make things difficult for you?" Chen Guo also expressed her loyalty righteously.

"Running a team, you shouldn't think like that, right? If one day we all come together to ask for our accounts, would you really give them to us? What would the players in the team use to compete then?" Ye Xiu said.

Who knew Chen Guo would just smile and say, "The question is, will there be such a day?"

Everyone readily handed over their accounts to the team. This was their trust in her as the manager. Similarly, her statement was also a sign of trust in everyone, believing that these people would not do anything to make things difficult for the team.

"That's hard to say." In the end, Ye Xiu insisted on being a wet blanket. "Some people have no bottom line."

"Right! You have to watch out for him." Wei Chen immediately stood up and said, and these two started mocking each other again...

Of course, Chen Guo wouldn't pay attention to these trash talks from these two guys. Instead, as the boss, she found Little Cold Hands in the team chat and discussed some issues in a businesslike manner.

The conversation went smoothly.

Little Cold Hands thought of even more things than Chen Guo, the boss. You couldn't really blame Chen Guo for this. After all, apart from Little Cold Hands, everyone else was based on friendship. With Chen Guo's personality, some problems, even if she realized them, were difficult for her to bring up. She would feel embarrassed.

But after taking on a businesslike attitude to talk with Little Cold Hands, Chen Guo found that many problems were easier to explain. For example, the upcoming Challenger League cooperation, everyone was indeed going in the name of a team, but in reality, most Challenger League teams were focused on participation. Making it into the pro scene? That was mostly a fantasy. Except for club teams treating this as a resurrection match, no team seriously planned to treat themselves as a pro team from the beginning. In most cases, it was just a few friends, either in reality or in the game, who would quickly form a team before the competition, register, and have a good time.

Perhaps in this process, some outstanding players would be seen by the pro scene, but at most they would be poached by pro teams. Until now, no team has ever entered the pro scene in one step like this.

So Chen Guo and Little Cold Hands seriously discussed the question of whether they were considered a pro team at the Challenger League stage.

If they were considered a pro team, then of course they would have to sign contracts and pay salaries. But under normal circumstances, in the Challenger League, participants were interest-based groups, and talking about salaries was really a bit ridiculous. Who was begging whom to participate? And pay salaries?

Chen Guo originally wanted to take this attitude towards Little Cold Hands as well. But then she thought that Little Cold Hands was a talent that Ye Xiu had worked hard to win over. Although not as precious as a professional player, Ye Xiu had been undercover in Tyrannical Ambition, a top guild in the game, for so long, and had seen so many priests, but he only chose Little Cold Hands.

Little Cold Hands was not the best, but he was more than enough. It would be an exaggeration to say that he was irreplaceable, but to say that he was dispensable, did they really think Ye Xiu transformed into Unrivaled Super Handsome just to pass the time?

Little Cold Hands was much more difficult to deal with than Wei Chen and Steamed Bun on this issue. The two of them had a friendship, so they came right away. Chen Guo had taken care of their food and lodging during this time, and they hadn't even mentioned how this Challenger League stage would be calculated. But this Little Cold Hands, how should she talk to him?

Chen Guo hesitated for a long time before bringing it up, but it turned out to be surprisingly smooth. The reason was that Little Cold Hands had a clear understanding of this. He knew his limitations in terms of character positioning. He was very accepting of the conventional model of everyone being like a passerby before entering the pro scene. But the problem was that their team's goal wasn't to be a passerby, and there were people on the team who were definitely not at the passerby level.

As a result, in the end, it was Little Cold Hands who was reminding Chen Guo: Don't treat Great God Ye Qiu as just some passerby. If he really just goes as a passerby, then the whole team will just be passerby.

Obviously, Chen Guo was used to not taking Ye Xiu seriously. But Little Cold Hands, who didn't know the inside story, wouldn't know that Ye Xiu was just someone Chen Guo had picked up by chance, not someone she had worshiped and begged to come back. There was still some time before the Challenger League, and Little Cold Hands was quite nervous about what might happen to the great god during this stage.

Chen Guo thought about it and understood. In most people's minds, was it necessary for Ye Qiu to form a team and take the risk of returning to the pro scene through the Challenger League? No, not at all.

With Ye Qiu's identity, if he really wanted to return to the pro scene, he could just announce his comeback and attract a lot of attention. Even considering factors such as age and a year's gap, it might not be enough to make people fight over him, but it wouldn't be difficult to find a pro team and just hang around. How could that not be more reliable than forming a grassroots team and fighting their way up through the Challenger League?

So in Chen Guo's eyes, Little Cold Hands, whom she wasn't familiar with, was a bit tricky, but in Little Cold Hands' eyes, Ye Qiu, such a big name, was the most troublesome person on the team, right?

"You can rest assured about that. Ye Qiu is the leader of this team," Chen Guo told Little Cold Hands.

"Then he's considered technical shares?" Little Cold Hands asked.

"Of course, of course." Chen Guo had never thought about these issues before. It wasn't until today, because of Little Cold Hands' account problem, that everyone seriously discussed the team's investment ratio and other things for the first time. The previous example was Wei Chen's possible investment in the team, but now, after Little Cold Hands' reminder, Chen Guo realized that Ye Qiu should indeed be considered a technical share, and the value of his technical share was only high, not low. In addition, Wei Chen's possible investment was one aspect, but his research on how to obtain skill books was also considered a technical share, and they were already using it.

If these things were really calculated, it would be really troublesome!

Chen Guo didn't really know how to calculate this, so she consulted Ye Xiu and Wei Chen. These two veterans had both experienced the earliest days of the team's formation, so they both had a bit of a say in how the team should start. After listening to these two, Chen Guo understood. In the early days, there were many teams who were passionate about forming a group, but they didn't have any start-up capital. It was already good enough to solve the food and lodging for a bunch of players, and there was no extra fixed salary at all. Their income was directly based on a percentage of the team's various earnings after it was operating.

As for the percentage of the commission, it was based on everyone's investment. And at that time, the most important thing that everyone used to invest was the account in their hands.