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Chapter 727 - 87: Crisis at the Game Arena
"What a thoroughly exhilarating and moving boxing match."The gaming arena, inside the office.
Having finished watching the live stream of the Life Span Boxing Ring, Shang Jianyue turned off the recording device on his forehead, feeling satisfied.
"The golden couple from Sword Hero Star, loving each other and rivaling each other, tsk, who came up with this brilliant story? Nevertheless, I like it."
Thinking of this, Shang Jianyue couldn’t help but smile slightly.
He looked forward a bit to the scene when they returned to Blue Star.
However, his smile didn’t last long.
Soon, one of his subordinates rushed in, "Lord Shang, we’re doomed!"
"I am not doomed yet." Shang Jianyue’s face turned instantly dark upon hearing the first sentence from his subordinate.
"No, no, I mean the gaming arena is close to being doomed!"
Looking at his excessively nervous subordinate, Shang Jianyue’s expression became serious as well.
"I know you’re anxious, but calm down for a moment."
"Tell me, what exactly has happened."
Maybe it was Shang Jianyue’s composure that influenced him, the flustered subordinate started to speak more clearly.
"Here’s the situation: today, after the gaming arena closed, as we tidied up and counted the income, we discovered that the entire gaming arena had a net loss of thirty thousand life coins!"
Thirty thousand life coins are not a small amount in Pure Beauty Paradise, where the average monthly salary is two hundred life coins.
Such a massive loss would definitely impact the monthly revenue point of the gaming arena, and as its staff and managers, they would undoubtedly face punishment.
"First, identify the cause."
As the Shang Family Ancestor, Shang Jianyue remained relatively calm. He rubbed his forehead and asked.
"We cross-referenced the transaction logs and discovered that the losses mainly occurred... an hour ago."
An hour ago, which was almost closing time for the gaming arena.
At that time, Shang Jianyue was watching a match on the first boxing ring and wasn’t paying attention to the situation inside the gaming arena.
You can’t blame him for that.
As a mature entertainment venue, the gaming arena’s profit model was self-sustaining, and it didn’t require Shang Jianyue to spend too much energy managing it.
Shang Jianyue’s presence was mainly for handling special incidents under special circumstances.
For example, now.
"Such large-scale loss cannot leave no trace."
"Play the surveillance footage from within the past hour."
Shang Jianyue ordered, and soon, an hour’s worth of surveillance footage from the arena was transmitted over.
The gaming arena, one of the top money sinks in the entire Paradise, was massive, with thousands of different gaming projects and play methods.
Thus, the transmitted surveillance footage, even if just for an hour, took up a considerable amount of memory.
Trying to find the clues you want among all these surveillance footages is not an easy task.
But not for Shang Jianyue.
"Speed it up tenfold, and open a hundred live screens."
Shang Jianyue’s request stunned his subordinates for a moment.
Soon, the reacting subordinates dared not question and followed the order completely.
A hundred live feeds, played at ten times speed, looked like snowy noise to a normal person’s vision, impossible to see clearly.
Shang Jianyue was obviously not an ordinary person.
As the Shang Family genius ancestor and a Tier Nine Ultimate powerhouse of the Virtual Dao, this level of difficulty was nothing to him.
Soon, amidst the countless flashing snowflakes on screen, Shang Jianyue froze the footage at a specific time.
One, ten, a hundred... as one screen after another froze, each frame showed the same silhouette being circled out.
All three hundred gaming grounds captured the same silhouette.
"It seems we’ve found the person we were looking for." Looking at the silhouette in the footage, Shang Jianyue said calmly.
"Three hundred grounds, not even enough time to place bets. How did he do it?!"
His subordinate’s tone was filled with incredulity upon witnessing this scene.
On average, the man in the images didn’t stay in any one place for more than 12 seconds. Even if adjacent areas were very close, saving much time, he wouldn’t have spent more than 30 seconds at most.
In other words, the person took 30 seconds to place bets and won life coins each time, repeating this operation three hundred times!
"Life coins are settled directly, and we only discovered the massive loss after the gaming arena closed," the subordinate said.
"He didn’t observe, didn’t linger, closed eyes, and just went where he placed bets, completed all bets within seconds. It’s just like buying vegetables."
Here, Shang Jianyue muttered to himself, pausing for a moment.
"This is not scientific!" His subordinate shouted immediately.
Indeed, it’s not scientific. How could he be confident of successfully gambling blindfolded every time... at this, Shang Jianyue shook his head, "Unless this person is extraordinarily lucky."
"Luck." Shang Jianyue repeated this word.
Honestly, he hated this word.
Compared to luck, Shang Jianyue preferred probability, science, because they can be traced, studied.
But luck cannot.
"Go for now."
"To resolve this matter, first, we must determine if it was a random or inevitable event."
"If the man in the surveillance footage visits the gaming arena again tomorrow, notify me immediately."
"Let me meet him in person."
Hearing Shang Jianyue say this, his subordinate temporarily felt relieved.
"Do we need to seek help from Lord Le regarding the losses..."
The Lord Le he was referring to is the true owner of the gaming arena and a senior figure in Paradise.
Shang Jianyue shook his head.
"Not necessary, the current revenue point of the gaming arena is still normal, plus I’ve developed many new gaming projects, increasing the revenue points."
"Though thirty thousand life coins is a lot, it’s not enough to make the entire gaming arena panic like a startled bird."
"We haven’t reached the point of exhausting resources and needing to ask for assistance."
Shang Jianyue said in a slightly relaxed tone.
As a Tier Nine Ultimate powerhouse, one of Blue Star’s few strategic geniuses, he had this confidence.
...
Three days later.
After three days of rest, Han Zhan and Luo Qiuhong were both back to peak condition.
They also received their share of the prize from the Life Span Boxing Ring.
Each received ten thousand life coins.
Luo Keyang still attempted to shamelessly ask them to endorse the Life Span Boxing Ring, but they politely refused.
The [Mysticism] authority, has already been pocketed by Han Zhan, and this authority is a perfect match for Second Senior Brother Lin Jingxuan.
Thus, Second Senior Brother Lin Jingxuan’s foundation of the Great Dao only lacks the final authority!
There is a high possibility he might become the first in Great Xia to complete transcendence and rank among the deities.
This alone made this trip to Pure Beauty Star worth it.
That day, just as Han Zhan woke up, the local communicator with Shang Jianyue in his ear suddenly emitted a noise.
Shang Jianyue’s voice came through.
"Help, help, help!"