Indeed, Bosses All Become Cunning!

"Xiaoyun, look at how you've bullied Senior Xin Ya..." Two

Player B: "This isn't fair! It's always prioritizing those with high scores. We bottom-tier players have no sense of experience at all."

Player C: "Exactly, exactly!"

Looking at the group of Hulks with their ignorant yet envious expressions, Guo Xiaoyun sighed slightly, thinking to herself: Being a brick mover is so sad!

She went all the way into the Lord's room. As the protective door closed, Xiaoyun looked at the tall Lord sitting at the desk, remaining silent.

Xi Ye looked at his most outstanding Developer, his mood complex. He was happy that she was indeed excellent, knowing to seek help here immediately, but also regretful that he wouldn't see the intelligent dung-eating.

But to be honest, if the AI lost, in what form would it eat dung? If it controlled a machine to eat dung, would that count? Was I being played after all?

"Don't you have anything to say?" After a long silence, Xi Ye cleared his throat and took the initiative to ask.

Xiaoyun was silent for a while before looking up and saying, "What you have is a fraudulent contract. Such contracts don't count where we come from..."

"Cough cough!" Xi Ye choked. He didn't expect her to bring this up right away, and he was immediately quite embarrassed. He asked, annoyed, "Shouldn't you be more concerned about your own situation right now?"

"What's there to be concerned about?" Xiaoyun rolled her eyes and said, "The AI said just now that the virus can't infect lifeforms above level one. I looked at the data, and I'm a level one lifeform, right? This virus should be useless against me."

Xi Ye covered his head. So having subordinates who are too smart isn't necessarily a good thing.

"You're not really planning to keep us working for free, are you?" Xiaoyun continued to ask sharp questions.

"How could I?" Xi Ye said solemnly, "I am a benevolent Lord, how could I do such a shameless thing?"

Xiaoyun: "Then when are you going to pay us?"

"Young people, don't talk about money all the time. As a newcomer, you should be more concerned about your own growth, future, how much you can accumulate, and how much you can contribute, instead of asking the boss for a salary every time you open your mouth!"

Xiaoyun: "So you just don't want to pay?"

Xi Ye: "..."

What an unyielding fellow. It seems the strategy of concealing the truth from the masses must continue. Thinking back to when these guys were players a while ago, how simple and honest they were, working overtime without complaint. What was money? No one even mentioned it.

Now that they know they're wage slaves, they've turned into that ugly, money-grubbing face!

"Ahem, you're not yet regular employees. This Lord has spent a great price on you to evolve you. No company or force would cultivate people at their own expense, can you understand that?"

Guo Xiaoyun was stunned. Not knowing that her genes were only worth one and a half God Coins, she nodded honestly, unable to refute for a moment.

"But this Lord is not a stingy person. How about this, the virus AI has extracted a sample from you, and an antidote has been created using your immune serum. This Lord will issue a large-scale mission, led and commanded by you. If you can perfectly resolve this virus crisis," this Lord will make an exception and allow you, an intern, to enjoy the salary of a regular employee, how about it?"

"How much?"

"Five hundred!"

"Daily?"

"Dream on! Monthly, of course!"

Xiaoyun: "Are you kidding me? We make more than five hundred a day just moving bricks!"

Xi Ye: "Young people, don't think you can just make things up because this Lord is an alien. This Lord has investigated the going rate for brick moving in your area. It's at most one hundred and fifty a day!"

Xiaoyun: "I misremembered. Operating an excavator makes more than five hundred a day."

Xi Ye smiled coldly and casually pulled up a set of recruitment data. It read: "High salary of eight thousand to hire excavator operators, room and board included."

"But that's a monthly salary for them, isn't it? You're being too harsh with five hundred a month, right? I can earn more than that selling mineral water bottles for a month."

Xi Ye: "That's because you don't know the purchasing power of our God Coins. In your Central China Region, one hundred Federation credits can't even buy ten pounds of apples, but here, one hundred can buy a truckload. An ordinary level seven planet resident with an annual income of five hundred God Coins is considered a well-off family. You're actually complaining it's too little?"

"Really... is that so..." Guo Xiaoyun said somewhat suspiciously, "But the other day, I saw a set of mecha on your planet that seemed to cost over a hundred million!"

"That's the cutting-edge product of the high-end market, of course it's not something you can hope for right now. When you evolve to that level, you'll naturally have that kind of purchasing power, if you want to develop in the direction of a manipulator."

Upon hearing that she might have a chance to own a mecha, Guo Xiaoyun's eyes lit up, and she was eventually coaxed out by Xi Ye, half believing and half doubting.

After Guo Xiaoyun left the lord's room, the AI's voice sounded: "Shouldn't mecha be allocated to the citizens by the lord? Why does it sound like the lord wants them to buy it themselves?"

"Didn't you say to follow the game routine? I took a look at the games on this planet, and don't those players have to spend their own money to buy equipment?"

AI: "You're even planning to make them pay for weapons and equipment themselves?"

"Ahem... wouldn't that be more like a game?"

"Lord has turned bad. You weren't like this before. Is it because you were scammed by that goblin?"

Xi Ye: "Shut up!!"