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"It's nothing, I just came to give you some advice. After all, decisions made at night are mostly impulsive."
"While I respect whatever decision you make, Doctor, I still want to say..."
"Why not have a glass of warm milk and take a nap first?"
"Perhaps I'll get a better answer when I wake up."
Chapter 82: How can I possibly lose?
12:13 AM
The Hunting Scale Training Ground.
The training ground was bustling with people, like a vibrant ocean.
Even after many top-level team members who came back for their "expert appointments" left in a hurry yesterday, the place was still bustling with activity.
At the classroom door of Yan Ying and Wei Cao, the crowd was even denser, like a small vortex, constantly attracting people from all around.
However, it was lunchtime, and the three Rhodes Island operators did not have a class. Instead, they gathered in Eileen's room to discuss skill specialization with Li Ji.
"Most of the people who came for training yesterday successfully mastered their skills to level one."
Flame Shadow Reed handed the compiled data to Li Ji, which showed the number of people who specialized in skills in the training room yesterday, the time spent, and the success rate.
Li Ji did a quick mental calculation and found that the time required was similar to that in the Arknights system. Moreover, after specializing in the skills of these dozen or so people, no unexpected incidents occurred.
"That looks like it's the same as the skill specialization system in Terra, which is convenient..."
Li Ji watched as Wei Cao handed a stack of A4 papers to Yan Ying Wei Cao.
The above is a list of personnel he compiled this morning, which consists almost entirely of infrastructure professionals with specialized skills in various fields.
Moreover, these operators are all low-star operators given as rewards for completing system tasks in the past, and do not require unlock tokens to obtain.
For example, Red Bean, Sussuruo, Feather, Bee Hunter, Thunderclap...
These four-stars, as well as some five-stars within the Rhodes Island network, are all on this roster.
Currently, Li Ji hardly uses these operators in his live streams.
Moreover, according to his plan, he intends to spend all of his livestream revenue on exchanging Originium next month.
Given the current situation, only by acquiring items that can enhance our strength more quickly can we better cope with future crisis contracts.
Currently, even if we use high-dimensional operators to return to some of the previous contracts, there are still many problems that cannot be solved.
He could think of a way to implement the six deployments and three cost reductions in the Spectrum Operation, but he really couldn't think of any way to stop the Demon God Dorothy, who was losing life points, from the sealed-off area of the Columbia Experimental Base #1 Extinction Test.
Dorothy didn't even need to step in; in the 935-level annihilation test, just one dog had 11,000 HP, 600 attack, and 600 defense.
That's enough to make someone break out in a sweat.
Everyone says not to keep thinking about that last line of defense.
But what if the old and new contracts in this world never finish breaking down the rifts and then go berserk?
Yesterday, Nanzhu was complaining to Li Ji about how easily Colombia's defense was breached.
Now, when Li Ji really thinks about this, he's practically ready to offer incense to Colombia.
Therefore, no matter what, he must quickly accumulate Originium to purchase items from the purchasing center.
After all, the purchasing center is full of all sorts of collections.
If it could be applied to the real world or the rift, Li Ji was quite confident that he could rebuild his glory when facing contracts that hadn't been fully completed.
However, doing so will lead to an awkward situation.
That means his income will be hit hard.
If he, as a streamer, were to switch all his income from live streaming, he really wouldn't know where to make money.
He can't very well go to the border and bring Qingye back now.
After all, no one has bothered him about signing with Texas for a long time now, and it's time for Kiyono to keep his promise.
However, doing so could very well mean never returning and being detained at the border as a forced laborer.
Therefore, the path of specializing in training rooms should be the fastest, safest, and most legal one at present.
"I brought some more operators with me today, and I also borrowed Dust's training room. Her expert classroom is quite large, which makes it convenient for me to try out joint training for multiple people."
"Joint training?"
The three looked at Li Ji with some confusion and asked.
"Right, shouldn't you all have received joint training?" Li Ji was also quite puzzled. Logically speaking, these three people should all be graduates of the joint training program in the training room, so they shouldn't not know, right?
"Joint training means... for example, Silent Texas's infrastructure skill is +30% speed of the special and vanguard operator's skill specialization. If the specialization is upgraded to level 2, it will be an additional +50%."
"This way we can use the 50% bonus from Red Beans in the early stages of specialization 1 and the later stages of specialization 3, and then Texas will train the students for specialization 2."
"It can not only accelerate the mastery of skills, but also allow you to get together, so you won't be bored and have no one to chat with."
What Li Ji was thinking about last night wasn't actually as complicated as Jian thought.
He was simply planning how to best arrange the present and future.
This is one of his considerations at the moment.
His livestreaming reach is now booming, and the popularity of his operators is also steadily increasing.
Yesterday, Zuo Le also surged to over 200,000 popularity votes amidst the love and shock of the barrage comments.
Fire Dragon S Black Horn also received around 70,000 popularity votes—and almost 90% of those votes were obtained by using the Dragon Ascension skill to avoid the collapse fear.
Putting everything else aside, the standard and stylish finishing move definitely deserves this popularity vote.
So as long as he manages it properly, he should be able to obtain the right to purchase collectibles within one or two months!
Therefore, Li Ji needs to find a reliable source of income in reality to support the operators he has summoned and the expenses of his daily life.
As a newly discovered funding project, the job of training room instructors has naturally become a major way for Rhodes Island to obtain funds in the other world.
"I'll do a live stream in a bit to help the new operators and generate some traffic. After they've all registered, let's all meet up in the new training room."
Li Ji picked up the bags and placed them on the table. "Let's set out the dishes first, and then we'll get to work after we finish eating!"
But accidents are something that, while not necessarily rare, are almost certain to happen.
Just as they had finished setting out the food, a torrential downpour began.
……
Twenty minutes ago.
"Oh, you're going there too? That's a real shame. I wish you a pleasant life and hope you can master your skills even faster."
Kailong greeted his regular customer who was walking out of the door with a big smile.
He then let out a long sigh, looked at the empty training room, and angrily threw the cup away.
"Damn it, where are our students?!"
Chiron, sitting on the dumbbells, cursed at the two coaches beside him in a hoarse voice, his heart filled with dissatisfaction, "I've only been gone for two days, and you two good-for-nothings can't even keep people?!"
He had to go on a business trip these past two days because he needed to provide guidance to clients in the safe zone.
As one of the top private 1v1 coaches in the Hunter's Training Ground, it's not surprising that Kailong has clients in the safe zone.
As a special agent who retired from a top-tier team, his third skill was already at the highest level (Mastery 3).
With so many years of experience guiding students, his success rate has long exceeded 30%, making him almost the coach with the highest success rate besides the expert coach.
This is why they are ranked among the top in the Hunter's Scale Training Ground.
But when he returned today, more than half of his original customers were gone, all turning to other brands.
How could this not enrage him?
"Boss... it's not that we can't keep them, you heard it too, the clients have all gone to that team called Rhodes Island, and they've brought in several very popular operators!"
One of the coaches looked around nervously and stammered, seemingly afraid that Chiron might get angry and beat him so badly he'd end up in the hospital.
Kailong has a good attitude towards its customers, but whenever it gets angry, it takes it out on its employees.
"And so far... it seems they haven't failed yet, and it seems they've succeeded in all their specialized skills."
"All of them were successful?"
Chiron asked, somewhat incredulously, "What about the price? Surely the price can't be lower than ours?"
"The price seems to be 300,000 per class hour. If you want to specialize in a skill to level three, this price is generally unaffordable for most people."
"Then why did all our customers leave?"
It seemed that this person had provided some information, which made the furious Chiron look at him a little better. He turned to another coach next to him and asked, "Amin, do you have any clues?"
"..."
Looking at Chiron's fierce eyes, the coach called Amin felt speechless, but his will to survive prevailed over his fear, and he replied tremblingly:
"I just saw Rhodes Island...it seems they've registered a new batch of instructors, including...some three-star special agents. Their prices are significantly lower than ours."