Watching 230 lie on the Sofa in front of them, complaining while crying his heart out, Bai Zhi and Mountainside Li both felt an inexplicable, subtle sense of guilt rise within them.
...Why did he suddenly seem kind of pitiful?
It was only after quite a while that Bai Zhi finally learned the full story from 230.
As both a tour guide and streamer, 230 received performance-point commissions.
Those commissions mainly came from stream duration and viewer donations.
But obviously, during this qualification phase, it was basically impossible for any viewers to donate to streamers, so their only source of income was stream duration.
That was precisely why 230 had been suffering inwardly over Bai Zhi and the others clearing everything so quickly, yet had nowhere to vent about it.
If that had been all, it would have been fine. At most, he would have earned a little less. But the problem was that Bai Zhi and the others had consecutively smashed two Test Robots during the later tests, and one of them had not even left behind a speck of ash, drastically increasing the testing costs.
...And 230 had to pay for the repair costs of those test robots himself.
He had happily signed up to be a guide to earn some extra cash, but after one job, not only had he failed to earn anything extra, he had even lost quite a bit of his own savings. The fact that 230 had managed to hold it together until the stream ended before breaking down was already pretty impressive.
"..."
After listening to 230 sniffle his way through the whole explanation, Bai Zhi and the others collectively fell silent.
This "Mechanical City" seemed somewhat different from what they had imagined...?
"You big meanies, you terrible bad guys! That was