Chapter 46 - Saved Your Life
Translator: Lav
Editor: Levs
After clearing everything up, Shi Lei’s chest was heavy as he originally had the chance to quit. But now, he could only choose to accept a new challenge every week repeatedly.
It seemed easy as it was basically spending lavishly, but Shi Lei knew that if he really thought so, he would be like the man from that night sooner or later; driving a luxurious car and looking glorious on the outside, but cannot escape from the fate of being killed.
There must be other hidden secrets. It was impossible for the black card to just watch someone spend lavishly. After all, with the level and growth of the amount ever increasing, there will come a time where a person cannot spend it all.
Level!
Yes, it must be the level!
Shi Lei desperately needed to know what was with the levels.
The Scepter mentioned it before but Shi Lei didn’t pay too much attention to it as he thought it was some term. But now, Shi Lei knew that it was closely connected to him.
The quota already reached 80,000 yuan in the fourth week of the newbie training period. Now it was the official stage and he didn’t know how much the quota would be. But from the man who was killed, his quota would at least be in the million stage as he could afford a Porsche.
As he thought of this, Shi Lei quickly checked his bank account using his mobile and discovered that there was no money in there. Although it was already past midnight but this week’s quota hasn’t been issued. This indicated that the Sceptre should have some more explaining to do after entering the official stage.
Shi Lei decided to take the initiative and ask the Scepter. He already knew that the Scepter was simply a communicator, hence he was not scared of offend this odd guy.
“The point of the newbie training period was to test whether I have the ability to keep playing the game with you. Obviously, I now possess that ability to do so. So, after I enter the official stage, will there be different levels just like web games?”
The Scepter was rather gloomy and dissatisfied with Shi Lei’s attitude towards it. This was something it had never experienced before from other people.
But it could not do anything as indeed, it could not punish Shi Lei casually.
Plus, he must answer Shi Lei’s questions too as it was one of the duties the black card gave him, as well as the content that Shi Lei can know about on the stage he’s in.
“You are at level one right now, which is the lowest level in the official stage.”
“Good. Then, how many levels are there altogether?” Shi Lei asked again.
The Scepter answered in a bad mood: “For your level right now, you don’t have the authority to know about the answer to this question.”
“Then tell me everything I can know about levelling right now!”
The Scepter swore: “What a cunny slave!” But he couldn’t not say it, so he replied: “Level one slave……”
Shi Lei cut off the Scepter’s words mercilessly as he said: “Now I know clearly that the term ‘slave’ is something you simply made up. You probably feel relatable to me as you are also the black card’s slave. That is that you hope that me, along with all those people who came before me, are to become your slave. Am I right? Plus, once I accepted my identity as a slave, I would naturally be scared and ask you too much about the black card. So, I think, the term ‘slave’ isn’t necessary. From what I see, the relationship between the black card and I is more of the employee and the employer. The black card is the employer and I am the employee. And you are the only servant here. Look how kind I am, I didn’t even call you slave but a servant and I'm sure you are aware of the difference between those two words. So, please call me Mr. Shi from now on. If you are really unwilling to do so, then you can also address me as the employee.”
The Scepter swore angrily. Shi Lei just discovered that the Scepter actually possesses emotions as it could swear (because the swearing is too vulgar so it won’t be displayed here. Please imagine it by yourself).
After the Scepter finished swearing, it had to change its way of addressing Shi Lei without a choice: “Level one employee will be granted money once a week and the weekly quota is 100,000 yuan.”
“What about the time length? What do I have to do in order to become a level two employee? What’s the quota for level two employee? I said, I want to know about everything I’m allowed to know right now, and not you only answering to the questions I ask.”
The Scepter snorted and said: “Level one official employee cannot know about some details of level two official employee. Theoretically, levelling up from one to two should not exceed the consumption of one million yuan. If any of the time slots receives a high score, it can result in levelling up quicker.”
Shi Lei thought to himself: ‘If it counted the 150,000 yuan from the training period, then the longest time period he has to stay as a level one employee would be nine weeks, or eight weeks as the 50,000 yuan left could be easily spent and treated as done excellently. Even though they didn’t count the 50,000 yuan from the training period, the longest time it would take would be ten weeks, which is barely two and half months.’
The fuck, level up quicker, who the hell wanted that? He didn’t even know what would happen after levelling up, nor did he knew about how much the quota would increase to. Shi Lei really hoped that he would remain at level one forever as 100,000 yuan per week was relatively easy to complete.
“What kind of consumption would be treated as excellent?” Shi Lei asked with a stern face.
The Scepter answered: “Like the 60,000 yuan you spent last week.”
“60,000 yuan? What 60,000 yuan?” Although Shi Lei thought about the 60,000 yuan he gave to Sun Yiyi for her mother’s treatment, but he was still wondering as the 60,000 yuan was from refunding his laptop.
“Idiot! Do you really think the money you refunded from the laptop can be counted into the quota?” The Scepter’s tone lightened up a little as it finally found a chance to trash talk.
Shi Lei frowned and said: “I remember I came to ask you especially about this. Although you didn’t give me a clear and straightforward answer, but you did acknowledge that consumption!”
“Idiot! At that time, you were yet to refund so obviously, it was counted within the quota. But after you refunded it, the quota will recover. Otherwise, did you really think that you took my money, spent them all and then refunded them, and they would belong to you?”
“Uh……” Shi Lei patted his head in annoyance. This was such a simple principle, how could he not had thought of it? Because he was in a hurry to gather enough money for Sun Yiyi’s mother’s surgery fees, he was really being reckless!
“Then, if I bought something, and sold it with discount after this week, that money would also be counted into this week’s quota?” Shi Lei asked carefully. “Such as that clothes I bought a few weeks ago. If I sell them to my friends for a thousand, does that mean my quota this week will become 101,000 yuan?”
“It looks like you aren’t that dumb! And not just one thousand, the quota will recover according to the price at which it was bought!” The Scepter laughed coldly.
Shi Lei’s heart sunk. He was glad that he asked, otherwise he might really have problems with it later. Actually, before Shi Lei received an answer, he wished he could fluke it. If he could really do that, he could sell whatever he bought this week next week. He could not only complete the mission but also save money for himself. But obviously, the black card rejected his thought doing things stealthily completely.