Chapter 60 – Compensation for Rule Violation

Translator: Lav

Editor: Levs

Although s.h.i.+ Lei knew that the 9,300 yuan reward was given to him in a special way, but s.h.i.+ Lei wanted to talk to the Scepter anyway.

After all, s.h.i.+ Lei felt unhappy because he had to earn it himself.

“Isn’t it a reward? Why did I have to earn it myself? So, does it count as money I earned myself or a reward given by the black card?”

s.h.i.+ Lei stood in front of the ATM and asked the Scepter which was spinning slowly on the screen.

The Scepter laughed coldly and said mercilessly: “Why don't you calculate the chance of you earning these 9,300 yuan without my help?”

Actually, s.h.i.+ Lei calculated it before.

From the in-game announcement, there’s a 50% chance item drop for the first kill of the dungeon. In reality, it was half and half so the above can be ignored.

They had 11 people in the team and s.h.i.+ Lei’s chance of rolling the biggest number was also 1/11, about 9%, and like so, s.h.i.+ Lei’s chance of winning the item would be about 4.5%.

It was really not that low since he had almost 1/20 chance of getting it.

s.h.i.+ Lei said confidently: “I had almost 5% chance, that’s not low, is it?”

The Scepter snorted and said: “Although you don’t look good, but you think rather nicely……” It also laughed freakishly and s.h.i.+ Lei was shocked by its old meme. The Scepter continued: “If it was really 4.5% chance, then it won’t be counted as me helping you to get it. Do you really think that the game company would allow it to have such a high-level item on the first kill? With your knowledge of the game, what’s the value of a normal purple-gold level item? Don’t pretend you know nothing.”

……

“Uh……” s.h.i.+ Lei was speechless as the Scepter had a pretty decent knowledge and understanding of human’s games.

To be honest, s.h.i.+ Lei thought of this at the very beginning. Usually, as a game company, they would not expect the property of the first item to be this good. Even when purple-gold level items become the standard of the guilds, it would be nothing compared to the one he got today. The properties were way too overpowered and especially that it did not have much restrictions on occupations, which made it viable for any players to use.

If it wasn’t for its properties, as an item itself, it would only be 2,000 or 3,000. Plus, it was the first item in the whole server, it would be extremely lucky to sell it for 5,000. s.h.i.+ Lei even thought that it would be hard for him to sell it for more than 4,000.

In other words, the black card did not only impact s.h.i.+ Lei’s luck when rolling the dice, but also the properties of this item.

This wasn’t too easy to calculate but he could definitely lower the 4.5% by a few hundred times.

s.h.i.+ Lei didn’t plan to continue asking as he knew that the outstanding performance he did today may even be affected by the black card. Otherwise, according to the speed of the second kill, even if they finally finish it, they may not finish it first. And not being able to finish it first meant that the chance of them getting the item drop was slimmer.

If he considered this factor, the chance of receiving the award of 9,300 yuan would be less than 1/100,000.

If that was the case, the black simply used this event to pa.s.s on the reward to him.

s.h.i.+ Lei was about to eject the card and leave in silence, but the Scepter opened its mouth and spoke first: “I was supposed to tell you this before, but you asked so much yesterday that I forgot about it. But you’ll know the next time you level up. All the rewards I give you will be through forms like this. All the money that belongs to you are money circulating in the real world, and they won’t appear out of nowhere like the weekly quota. The form of sending them to you will depend on the difference of the sum.”

“Thank you.”

The Scepter said again: “Anyways, this was my mistake. Then, the money you spend to treat your friends will be counted within this week’s quota.”

s.h.i.+ Lei wanted to ask something else, but the Scepter did not give him the chance to do so. It exited the screen and the black card was ejected.

s.h.i.+ Lei took the card and pondered as he walked out: although nothing wrong happened today, and s.h.i.+ Lei got the 9,300 yuan without knowing the reason, but the Scepter made it clear that it was its mistake. So, the bill he will be paying later on originally won’t be counted to the weekly quota, but now it will as compensation.

But, why did it need to compensate?

The only reason was that it doesn't matter whether it was the black card or the Scepter, they needed to follow their rule strictly and s.h.i.+ Lei also had to. As soon as s.h.i.+ Lei violated the rules, he would receive punishment of different levels and the worst was to get killed.

But for the black card and the Scepter, they would also receive punishments. Except the penalty was impossible to be death sentence, then it would be giving s.h.i.+ Lei some sort of compensation.

Although today’s accident didn’t matter, but they still compensated s.h.i.+ Lei anyways. Although the compensation didn’t have much meaning, but it meant that there’s the existence of compensation to him.

If they compensated for such a tiny mistake, then if they make a severe mistake, their compensation would be unimaginable.

Or in other words, does it mean that if he wanted to escape from the black card, he needed to make the black card violate its rules to a degree that s.h.i.+ Lei have to beg it?

s.h.i.+ Lei could not confirm this as it was just a thought. But even if it wasn’t so, s.h.i.+ Lei could use it more efficiently after he knew that they have to compensate for their mistakes.

“I need to know more about the rules!” s.h.i.+ Lei sighed.

Other than this, s.h.i.+ Lei found out another information, which was that the money for the reward had to be given through real currency circulation. As for the reason, s.h.i.+ Lei thought and he figured something out.

The black card’s quota for consumption was prohibited from any sort of investments. Even if he earned from it, he would still have to spend it. But the money from the rewards, he could use them to invest, earn profit, then repeat the cycle.

s.h.i.+ Lei couldn’t understand the deeper aspect of it, but he was so close to the cut-off point in the middle.

It was clear that the money that could be used for investment and the money couldn’t be used for investment were two completely different areas for the black card.

If s.h.i.+ Lei could understand the rules a bit more, or if he could use this point and make the black card and the Scepter make mistakes, s.h.i.+ Lei believed that if he can successfully mix up these two areas, it could cause the black card to make mistakes and it will have to compensate s.h.i.+ Lei for it.  

If that was the case, perhaps s.h.i.+ Lei could find a way to get away from the black card.

He may not be able to do that now, but it doesn’t mean that he can’t in the future!

“s.h.i.+tou, they are crazy! If you don’t stop them, they’re going to buy the entire skewer stall!” Zhang Mo yelled from far away.