Chapter 100: Chen Cong: This Game Is Targeting Me

Jiang Cheng’s expression froze when he heard that, and he replied weakly,

“I’m being serious here.”

“I didn’t mean anything else. With the company offering such great benefits, of course I’ll treasure this opportunity.”

Wang Juan rolled her eyes at Jiang Cheng and began walking around the dorm, checking it out.

……

The Next Day,

At Cangxue Games—

Fang Chang, Wei Yan, and a few core staff members arrived early at the company meeting room.

“The announcement is ready, right?”

Fang Chang looked toward Zhao Bowen and asked.

Zhao Bowen yawned tiredly and replied,

“It’s all done. The changes planned for the near future and all the various player benefits are included.”

In order to speed up the game’s progress, he’d stayed up late last night to write the announcement at home.

“Thanks for the hard work.”

Fang Chang gave Zhao Bowen a pat on the shoulder. Since the company didn’t allow overtime, Zhao had no choice but to work from home. And Fang only asked Zhao to do it—he hadn’t made the same request of any other staff.

After all, that rule was set by General Manager Chen, meant to ensure the staff could get adequate rest. If he forced people to work at home, it would defeat the whole purpose.

“Alright, since the announcement is ready, push an update package soon and get the announcement out. Let the players learn about the upcoming changes ASAP.”

“Next up is the in-game gear. Group One—replace those noble-exclusive items with equivalent alternatives. I want at least half done today. It’s just minor tweaks to the existing models and color adjustments. That’s doable, right?”

Fang Chang looked at the Group One team leader.

“Manager Fang, we’ve already finished half the replacement gear, and we should be able to wrap up the other half today.”

The Group One lead replied.

“All done? But the task was only assigned yesterday afternoon?”

Fang Chang turned, looking puzzled.

The team lead scratched his head sheepishly,

“Zhao said it was urgent—this affects Tianlong’s survival. So I discussed it with the team and we decided to work on it after hours.”

“Honestly, ever since President Chen changed the policies, we haven’t had to work overtime at all.”

“He’s been so good to us. Volunteering for one night of overtime? Totally worth it.”

Fang Chang was touched. In the past, no employee had ever willingly worked overtime.

Sure enough, President Chen’s company had its own kind of magic.

And ever since the company’s sports day, something had changed in the employees. They’d truly begun to embrace the company.

If before, their mindset was “one day’s work for one day’s pay,” and whatever happened to the company was none of their business, now they genuinely saw themselves as part of the company. There was an invisible bond.

Fang Chang finally understood why President Chen handed out such generous prizes at the sports day. It had won over the staff’s hearts.

But it was also an expensive approach—most bosses couldn’t bear to do it, or weren’t willing to.

After all, there’s always cheap labor. If someone doesn’t want the job, just replace them.

Fang shook off his thoughts and turned to Group Two.

“Your group needs to balance the XP values of low-level mobs and adjust the drop rates of the replacement free gear.”

“Manager Fang, we also did a bit of extra work last night, so that’s already done too,”

Group Two’s lead said a little shyly.

One of their members was friends with someone in Group One and heard they were working late—so they didn’t want to fall behind.

Working overtime for President Chen? Nothing shameful about that.

Fang Chang’s mouth twitched, then turned toward Group Three’s lead.

But before he could speak, the Group Three lead beamed and said,

“I gotta admit, sneaky overtime is kinda fun.”

“So before I knew it, we finished everything from yesterday’s list too.”

Great.

All three groups had voluntarily worked overtime and finished the day’s tasks early.

Fang Chang sighed, then suddenly remembered something important.

“I didn’t ask you to work overtime, alright?!”

If President Chen mistakenly thought he made everyone work late, Fang was doomed.

“Don’t worry, Manager Fang—we get it!”

The group leads said in unison, smiling.

Fang looked at them, completely baffled. Get what?

Well, since today’s work was done, it was time to assign tasks for tomorrow.

After all, the faster they could revamp Tianlong, the better.

Fang began setting out today’s work schedule. At this pace, they’d finish the overhaul plan in just three days.

Then, the updated game could launch, and players could immediately experience the changes.

……

In a small rental apartment—

Jiang Jiu stared at the ring that had just dropped in-game, tears of excitement filling his eyes.

After all this time, he finally got his second piece of gear—

The Dragon-Slaying Ring.

It hadn’t been easy!

Jiang Jiu sighed, then got up to splash his face and refresh himself. But just as he took a step, he heard a clatter beneath his feet.

Looking down, he saw a mess of Red Bull cans rolling across the floor.

He kicked them aside and headed into the bathroom.

After a quick wash, he called Brother Hao.

He’d just gotten a piece of gear—time to cash in. Hopefully Brother Hao still wanted that ring.

If not, it’d still be another 50,000 yuan in the bank!

Not long after—

Jiang Jiu looked at the 50,000 yuan freshly deposited into his account and grinned from ear to ear.

Worth every bit of grinding he’d done.

He took a short break, then got ready to go again.

……

Inside a luxury villa—

Chen Cong stared silently at the Dragon-Slaying Ring he’d just obtained, then looked over the gear on his character.

So far, he only had six pieces of the Dragon-Slaying set.

After all this time, he’d acquired eight total—two of which were duplicates. So only six unique pieces.

Right now, he felt a strong sense of hostility from the game itself.

These gear drops were ridiculously hard to get.

For the first time, he had money to spend—but couldn’t spend it.

If Mei Youqian hadn’t publicized the equipment-buying effort across game groups and forums, he might not even have managed to collect six different pieces.

And who knew how long it would take to complete the whole set and crush that poser who had humiliated him?

Chen Cong sighed—when suddenly, he noticed a new game announcement pop up.

That piqued his curiosity. This game hadn’t released any announcements in a long time!

He immediately clicked it openP