Slacking Off

"Countdown, 3, 2, 1!"

The hour hand pointed to six o'clock. Inside the game, the Planet Offense and Defense War immediately began.

In the space scene, several giant spaceships flew rapidly. More than 400 game characters jumped out of the spaceships, riding various mounts and emitting various lights, descending onto Tianmu Star like gods.

Beams of light also rose from Tianmu Star. Under Han Yang's unified command, a total of 50 small teams quickly rushed towards the enemy.

The two sides instantly engaged in a fierce battle.

Lü Yangsheng shuttled back and forth between rows of computers, slightly nervous, constantly checking the battlefield situation. Han Yang remained calm, pretending to be ignorant and clueless, while his mind was constantly processing hundreds of thousands, even millions, of thoughts.

Thousands of miles away, in the core area of Fuxing Base, in the power leveling room, 100 computer cases hummed, and the light and shadow on the monitors changed. In front of the computers, 100 robots moved their arms rapidly, fluttering over the mouse and keyboard like butterflies.

"Faster, faster!"

"Hit their left flank! Capture the statue! Hold the statue!"

"We can't hold on, hurry and support!"

In another city, in a computer room, various shouts rose and fell. In the computer room where Han Yang was located in this city, there was silence.

There were no shouts, no roars, only the hum of the computer cases and the rapid clicking of keyboards and mice.

Han Yang's computing power transformed into text, then into voice, accurately transmitted into the headsets of every operator.

These former gaming experts, at this moment, seemed to have become robots who didn't need to think.

They didn't need to analyze the current battle situation, nor did they need to make any judgments themselves. All they needed to do was mechanically perform the corresponding operations according to the instructions from the voice in their headsets. Other than that, everything else had nothing to do with them.

It seems like the statue nearby is about to be captured by the enemy?

Oh, that's not my business.

Should I go support?

No need, just watch.

As expected, after a while, another small team that happened to be moving nearby rushed up. The addition of this small team was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, just enough to overcome the enemy team that was previously defending the statue, accurately clearing out the enemies.

After clearing out the enemies here, coincidentally, another small team nearby encountered danger and was in a precarious situation. The previous small team happened to be free and could go support.

Everything seemed to be arranged, as if all the enemy's movements and any development of the situation had been predicted by the commander long ago, and then among thousands of possible routes, the most efficient decision was precisely chosen.

At this moment, the gaming experts in the computer room felt a bit complex.

This mode... how should I put it?

Even if it wasn't us, if some skilled players familiar with basic operations came, they could probably complete the operations... we're not needed at all.

Playing like this, even if we win, there's no sense of accomplishment or participation.

But...

It's really easy, though.

This can't be considered slacking off, right?

During the intense battle, some gaming experts even couldn't help but get distracted and start thinking about random things.

Mr. Lü wouldn't pay us less, right? He shouldn't, Mr. Lü has a big business.

Never mind, let's finish the game first.

The computer room was silent.

In the computer room of another city, the gaming experts were already losing control of their emotions.

"Holy crap, what's going on!"

"Why hasn't the defense line been broken through yet?"

"How did the Tianmu Gang's combat power become so strong today?"

"They're not stronger, it's still the same characters, they're still not great in one-on-one... Right, coordination! The key is coordination! Their coordination is too good!"

"Holy crap, I knew something felt off, their coordination is too good! What's going on?"

"Hit them, hurry up, it's already ten o'clock, and we haven't even pushed halfway!"

Sun Xiaoying was truly anxious at this moment.

Capturing Tianmu Star was an extremely important part of his subsequent plans.

Without capturing Tianmu Star, how could he have an excuse to play games with Morpheus? How could he get closer? Without getting closer, how could his family's industry develop ties with the Earth Industrial Committee?

For this battle today, he had spent several million, inviting all the experts he could!

He had even invited the bosses of three large game studios, and their 150 experts!

If he lost, everything would be in vain.

As time passed, the atmosphere in the computer room became more and more anxious. But the situation was still irreversibly developing in a direction he didn't want to see.

When the hour hand pointed to 11, Sun Xiaoying knew that the situation was completely irreversible.

Failure was a foregone conclusion.

It's just...

How could I lose! Why did I lose!

"Li Ke! Huang Teng! Didn't you say all the experts were called? Didn't you say your studio alliance had agreed not to support Lü Yangsheng? Where did that Lü Yangsheng guy find these experts?!"

Part of the reason Sun Xiaoying was confident of winning was that the game studio alliance was on his side.

To invite a large number of experts, you could only go through game studios. Blocking this path meant having to find those individual player experts one by one.

But player experts were individual players, with different temperaments, different personalities, and difficult schedules to arrange. How could they compare to studios, where the boss could give an order and they would immediately mobilize?

How easy was it to find 400 player experts?

Li Ke and Huang Teng came over to the big backer in a panic, sweat beading on their foreheads.

"Mr. Sun, our studio alliance really did discuss it. There are only five large-scale game studios for the 'Cosmic War' game. The rest are small studios that don't amount to much.

Now, the experts from our five studios are all here, Mr. Sun, you've seen it. How could we possibly support Lü Yangsheng?"

"Then what's going on! Where did Lü Yangsheng find so many experts? Don't tell me he found individual player experts one by one!"

Li Ke and Huang Teng exchanged glances, gritted their teeth, and Li Ke said, "There's another studio in this game whose scale has been rapidly expanding, but they haven't joined the studio alliance."

"Oh?"

"That studio has been engaging in price wars, disrupting industry rules. We invited them several times, wanting them to join the alliance so we could unify pricing, but they ignored us."

"Yes, that studio is very strong and has quite a few experts. In my opinion... Lü Yangsheng might have gotten support from that studio."

"What's its name?"

"Revival Game Studio. This is their shop's homepage."

Li Ke quickly pulled up the page and handed it to Sun Xiaoying.

Looking at the transaction volume of hundreds of thousands in the shop, Sun Xiaoying's expression became even more sinister.

"Investigate for me. If it's really this studio that did it, then crush them for me."

Li Ke and Huang Teng were inwardly delighted: "How do we crush them?"

"That studio has many experts, so their costs must be high. We'll engage in a price war with them and see if they can hold on! Don't worry, I'll cover the money you lose."