A Proper Quiz Game

With Highlight Key Points' help, they went through every book they could gather for the time being.

After marking all three hundred books, they had spent thirty mana points—but gained a mountain of questions.

After briefly organizing the questions in the Spirit Brain, Glasses looked at the neatly arranged list and blissfully clutched his chest.

Using spells felt so damn good.

Looking at the fruits of his labor felt so damn good.

At that moment, Glasses realized he did not hate working. What he hated was meaningless work.

The thought that his work would become material for Chen Yu's Dreamscape filled him with the honor of being recognized.

"Thank you, President Chen, for giving me work. I really hope I can do this job for the rest of my life."

"Ac... actually, as long as we work... work more slowly..."

After the short guy said that, the other three looked at him strangely.

The short guy himself sensed something was off and hastily raised his hand. "S... sorry..."

"It's fine. Only human nature," Glasses comforted him. "But the greatest virtue of us Heaven Origin people is honesty. They're paying us this much, so we can't betray their trust. All right, we've summarized the key points from three hundred books. It's about time to report our results to President Chen."

"No, it's still not enough! Questions alone can't prove our sincerity, and they don't justify our pay! We need to keep polishing them!"

"That's right! We need to do ten thousand yuan's worth of work for him. That's just how honest us Heaven Origin people are!"

After receiving Luo Tong's notice, Chen Yu returned to the company that evening.

When he heard that all three hundred reference books he had found had been sorted through, he found it a little hard to believe.

Three hundred books—at twenty minutes per book, that was one hundred hours. Split among four people, that was still twenty-five hours each.

Did that mean they had not rested at all since receiving the assignment and had worked nonstop until now?

Opening the Spirit Brain in confusion, Chen Yu found that they had actually completed summaries of all three hundred books.

And the quality far exceeded his expectations!

Every knowledge point in the books had been listed, and each question came with four alternative answers as he had requested.

None of the questions were simple rearrangements, either. They included the question writers' own little schemes and tricks. After reading them, Chen Yu could only marvel at how crafty these four were—a pack of wicked little question-setting sprites.

Was this the strength of prospective college students?!

Looking at the four before him, Chen Yu felt like he had struck gold.

Faced with Chen Yu's half-shocked, half-admiring gaze, the four guiltily turned their heads away.

They were too embarrassed to tell Chen Yu that they had completed most of the mechanical work through spells, and had only really optimized the answers themselves.

After all, this involved a gray area. It would not be convenient for the boss to know, in case he ended up taking the blame later, so silence was best.

But when they thought of how they had used such a method to collect wages, they felt terribly guilty.

Just as Luo Tong was considering whether to ask Chen Yu to reduce their workload or take back some of their wages, Chen Yu suddenly spotted a blind spot.

Pointing at the work the four had just completed, Chen Yu said excitedly, "Luo Tong!"

"Yes, Boss!" Luo Tong immediately replied.

"You worked overtime, didn't you!"

"Fine, no problem, we're willing to take a pay cut... Huh?"

"Huh?"

Chen Yu looked at Luo Tong in confusion and tilted his head. "What do you mean? I think I just heard something about cutting pay? I worked so hard to raise your wages—what right do you have to ask me to lower them?"

Paying Luo Tong and the other three had relieved a small part of the pressure from Positive Mana, but the daily KPI of sixty thousand was still terrifying.

It had only been a few days, yet his accumulated Positive Emotion had risen again. Even figuring out how to spend money every day was starting to give him a headache.

Seeing Chen Yu's expression, Luo Tong shuddered, then hurriedly said, "Nothing of the sort, you heard wrong!"

"Good. Remember, don't even think about cutting your pay. And why didn't you tell me you worked overtime? Claim triple overtime pay! Also, this assignment was supposed to take five days. Since you finished early, you get five days' worth of bonuses too. Please collect them."

Hearing the crisp sound of mana being credited, they saw that three hundred mana had appeared in their accounts, and their breathing quickened.

"Boss, you gave us too much! That's not the price!"

"My education score wasn't even full marks, so what's the point of telling me that? If there's a problem, contact me next month. For now, keep expanding the question bank. I'm going to start making the Dreamscape."

After driving the four back to their workstations, Chen Yu eagerly returned to his office and got to work.

Watching Chen Yu's tall figure disappear behind the door, Luo Tong muttered, "I've decided to devote the rest of my life to this lord."

Glasses took off his glasses and wiped them. "Please get in line."

Inside the boss's office, Chen Yu rolled his wrists, opened the Spirit Brain, and looked over the exercises the four had provided once more.

Even on a second read, Chen Yu marveled at how extraordinary the four were. They had made such simple, dull work look so beautiful.

Anyone capable of scoring high enough for a second-tier university truly was no ordinary person.

Since that was the case, his Dreamscape had to be even more spectacular.

Unfortunately, time was a little tight this time. Otherwise, he could have found people to create some illusions for the Dreamscape, improving its quality and making it more popular.

Still, the free material he had now was enough. After all, prizes were what mattered in a competition; the other requirements could be lowered a little.

Before officially starting production, Chen Yu followed his usual practice and looked up similar Dreamscapes made by other Heaven Origin dreammakers. Then he frowned.

Quiz competition Dreamscapes like this were not difficult to make. As long as the question bank was large enough, they could create a Dreamscape with strong randomness and varied content.

Then, with some attention to detail and prettier visuals, they could generally make something with at least a little substance.

Yet even so, Heaven Origin's dreammakers had failed to produce a single passable work.

Almost every quiz competition Dreamscape consisted of simple math questions—questions even elementary school students could answer.

Such Dreamscapes usually lured players in with massive prizes. Once the players took the bait, they began selling tickets; after the tickets were bought, they drastically raised the difficulty and proceeded to eat every last cent of the players' money.

Clutching his head, Chen Yu fell silent.

After confirming that his office's soundproofing was fine, he slapped the desk and shouted, "This is a scam! A scam! Can you Dreamscape makers have even a shred of integrity?! Even demonic cultivators aren't as vicious as you! You're driving players straight into a dead end!"

"Heaven Origin's income is already low enough, and you still pull this without any restraint! Damn it, even those who electrocute fish aren't as heartless and insane as you!"

"What the hell is the Tianyuan Cultivators Committee doing? Why haven't they come down with an iron fist yet? The whole environment has been ruined!"

"What am I supposed to do if I want to make a quiz competition now? Everyone will think I'm fishing for suckers! Can't you let me know who they are so I can chop them down one by one?! At five thousand yuan per person, I could chop through their entire household register!"

Stopping at last, panting heavily, Chen Yu felt that those people had even less moral character than he did, and his morality was only twenty-seven.

He had to let them know just how fun—and how proper—a quiz competition could be!