Among all the little players currently, Life Is Pretty Good is quite unique.

This uniqueness comes not only from his dual identity as both a combat professional and administrative player but also because he is one of the few “evil path” players at present. Since the discovery of the Trickster and Coffin Bearer career paths until now, although many players on the forum have sworn to create an evil character to try out, only a pitiful few have actually transferred to become Tricksters.

Old Huo is the most impressive among them, after all, the Trickster career path was discovered by him and Feel You Poor together.

But these aren’t enough to make Life Is Pretty Good a “peculiar” among players. His most well-known and talked-about characteristic is that he brought his four secretaries into the game as his dedicated “administrative team.”

Sinking Fish Playing Games at Work, Wild Goose Playing Games at Work, Hidden Moon Checking Bills at Work, and Shy Flower Working for Off Hours are all outstanding administrative assistants in reality. While working in administrative positions and receiving high salaries at Old Huo’s company, they have completely shattered the derogatory term “flower vase.”

They are true workplace elites, capable of properly completing various tasks assigned by their superiors. Even their slacking off in the game cannot hide their professionalism. Although nicknamed the “Four Golden Flowers” by players, and occasionally wandering aimlessly on the streets like other players, most of the time they stay in the administrative office seriously studying Transia management.

The four beauties entered the game with a purpose, and because of their employment relationship with Old Huo, it’s difficult for them to fully enjoy the game’s fun. Even the most wonderful things become less enjoyable when they become like punching a time clock at work.

However, the facts prove that 《Reality Realm》 indeed has its charm, and along with it, that sense of forced operation has diminished significantly.

Now in the carriage, facing Old Huo’s dissatisfaction with their work, “Sinking Fish Playing Games at Work,” the eldest of the Four Golden Flowers, immediately retorted:

“This is already the most detailed report and development strategy we’ve come up with based on Transia’s current situation and development level. This isn’t a plan we brainstormed on a whim, it’s the optimal solution for Village No. 1 based on Professor Chen’s suggestions!

Professor Chen’s student Bricklayer is the village chief of Village No. 5, and he has already decided to develop his village into the headquarters of the ‘Stonemason Guild’ and establish a ‘Craftsmen Guild’ there to build a base for manufacturing professionals.

This proposal has already been approved by the administrative office.

Village No. 5 is destined to become Transia’s craftsmen hub, and against the background of the territory’s urgent need for various industrial products, Village No. 5’s development speed will definitely be the fastest among the five villages.

We must catch this east wind, and the best part is that the Stonemason Guild also needs assistance from other villages, so this cooperation is almost zero-cost.

In conclusion, developing our Village No. 1 into a functional village that provides raw materials and auxiliary services for craftsmen is the fastest-acting and lowest-investment solution, and the benefits it can receive are quite considerable!”

“Yes!”

Shy Flower Working for Off Hours, the youngest of the Four Golden Flowers, also argued with her boss based on reason:

“Sister Sinking Fish’s explanation is already very clear, boss. The plan we chose for you is a ‘low investment, quick results’ approach that doesn’t require you to spend extra effort and time. The current administrative input needed for this plan can be easily handled by us four, you just need to be a figurehead and follow Little Rich Brother to explore the world.”

“I’m not saying your plan isn’t good, sisters.”

Life Is Pretty Good shook his head.

He isn’t a bad boss, and realizing his administrative team hadn’t understood his meaning, while stroking the spine scythe placed beside him, he explained slowly:

“I know your strategy is to maximize returns while minimizing risks, which is a very prudent investment approach, but we’re not making investments now, and I’m not asking you to hold a sum of money and definitely return several times the amount to me within a certain time.

After all, this isn’t about doing business!

I roughly understand why your plan turned out like this now, you still haven’t turned the corner from your previous thinking, but for this matter itself, I need you to jump out of the mindset of purely pursuing returns.

Your thinking isn’t wrong, it just doesn’t meet my current needs.

I am first an appointed lord, and second a profit-seeking merchant, therefore for my administrative career, political returns are more important than simple money.

What I need is to increase development points as quickly as possible in a short time! Not simply putting money in my pocket.

Moreover, if we build my village into a place providing supporting services for the Stonemason Guild according to your plan, it means my village’s development will inevitably be constrained by the expansion speed of the Stonemason Guild.

Professor Chen currently bears great construction pressure, he doesn’t have time to develop his Stonemason Guild, and although Bricklayer talks a good game, he’s just a student, his experience in this area is almost zero.

This also means our village’s development points will fall behind the remaining three villages.

And I’ve talked with Typal, the ‘newbie village’ chief has great ideas, his village might take off in just a month or two!”

Old Huo shook his head and said:

“I’m not trying to prove I’m better than anyone else, but the problem is, we can’t wait passively, sisters, we need to take initiative!”

He re-explained his thoughts, and the four administrative beauties immediately frowned.

According to the boss’s ideas, their plan indeed needed to be modified, but where to start left them scratching their heads, after all, this was grassroots construction, completely different from doing business, and after completing their MBAs, the four beauties went straight into work, none of them had experience working as village officials at the grassroots level.

The four of them discussed quietly in the carriage around the concept of “development points.”

Meanwhile, Old Huo leaned back in his chair watching his four charming and uniquely attractive secretary ladies busy at work, feeling quite satisfied and appreciating this pleasing scene.

Really just appreciating.

Old Huo had no other intentions.

He had the same background as Little Rich Brother but was much more successful in business than Little Rich Brother, he knew well that once the relationship between boss and secretary progressed further it would evolve into quite a troublesome scenario, though his gaze was quickly discovered by one of them and received a light kick under the table, making him hurriedly shift his gaze.

However, from Old Huo’s current composed demeanor, it seems he actually already had an idea in mind about how to rapidly develop his Village No. 1.

He was just waiting to see if his secretaries could “get it.”

As a player with both administrative and combat professions, Old Huo definitely wouldn’t have so much time for his territory management in the future, which was also the main reason he recruited his secretaries into the game.

He needed a stable rear area that could continuously provide him with funds and resources, so he could live carefree happy days in the game too.

This was mature and steady thinking, much more stable than Little Rich Brother’s approach of taking his manticore around playing everywhere and eating away at his mountain of wealth.

However, as childhood friends, Old Huo knew Little Rich Brother had invested in Brother Bang’s Crimson Hammer and Sickle team in the game, which made him realize that his “red pants brother” who had achieved nothing in business finally knew how to properly invest in “quality products” after learning from his mistakes.

It seems the “business bloodline” of the once-prominent Old Zhang had awakened in Little Rich Brother, although so far, only a tiny bit had awakened.

Just as Old Huo’s thoughts were wandering, his four beautiful and wise secretary ladies had come up with a preliminary plan.

They listed out a document and after confirming it was error-free a few minutes later, handed it to Life Is Pretty Good, who took it and looked at it, saying:

“Hmm, this time it’s much more solid, and you even know to find a differentiated track to highlight the advantage of our Village No. 1 being closest to Morland Village, planning to provide supporting services for that place that’s destined to become a commercial center between Transia and Saxony in the future.

This idea is a bit better than being an appendage of the Stonemason Guild.

However, it’s only a little better

Your pattern and thinking still haven’t opened up.

Look, I’m the village chief, what I pursue is the village’s prosperity points, we actually have many, many cases we can reference. Wild Goose, you studied at that academy in Pasadena, California before, right?

Have you been to Las Vegas?”

“Yes.”

“Wild Goose Playing Games at Work” nodded.

She knew Old Huo bringing up the gambling city definitely wasn’t to chat about the past, and reading between the lines was always a required course for qualified secretaries, so Wild Goose quickly understood.

She said:

“Do you mean to use an ‘evil path’ to increase the village’s development points? But isn’t the gambling city example a bit too extreme?”

“Extreme? No, not at all.”

Life Is Pretty Good shook his head and said:

“I’ve carefully read through the series of scattered decrees currently issued by the administrative office, among which there are no regulations prohibiting gambling in Transia, and the Blood Rat Gang has been running betting pools in the fighting club for quite some time now, almost every man with some spare money under the Crimson Citadel’s jurisdiction likes to try their luck there.

And according to my observations, Dorothy has actually already started casinos in several hidden corners of the sewers but on a very small scale, after all, she can’t be too obvious under Murphy’s nose.

Moreover, Transia is very poor right now, no matter how much you squeeze the locals there isn’t much juice, so if my Village No. 1 wants to take the gambling city route, we need to plan our target audience in advance.”

“The first batch of northern merchants is about to arrive!”

“Hidden Moon Checking Bills at Work” immediately pondered:

“I learned from the Bataxin Chamber of Commerce representative in Crimson Citadel that Lord Murphy has signed an agreement with the northerners, merchants from Nordtov will soon bring various goods to Transia, they clearly intend to use this place as a dumping ground.”

“Yes, the northern merchants will definitely want to spend the money they earn from us!”

Old Huo narrowed his eyes.

At this moment, the cold aura of a “successful businessman” finally fully manifested from him for the first time, in the carriage, he had the same commanding presence as when he was in his office on the 32nd floor of the office building.

He said in a deep voice:

“Rather than letting them take the money they’ve plundered from Transia back to their country to support the development and construction of the Wolf Queen who has nothing to do with us, why can’t we administrative warriors of Lord Murphy think of ways to take back that money that originally belonged to us through another transaction?

They don’t spend here only because there’s nothing to attract them!

But facts have proven countless times that under sufficiently precise design, human nature can never resist the temptation of getting rich overnight and the pursuit of ‘uncertainty’ from the inferior roots of life, human nature cannot be tested, even if this is just a game!

Therefore, based on our current understanding of NPC intelligence, I’m 70% confident that as long as we find the right approach, our Village No. 1 can definitely create a business miracle within half a month!

I admit, doing this kind of business in Transia is somewhat unethical, but from the perspective of the entire territory, building a large casino here that only caters to northerners has benefits and no harm.

Sisters, we should give these medieval rich merchants a good lesson!

We should let them see higher-level entertainment rather than just keeping slaves and chasing songstresses after making money back home, we should let them know how to spend money correctly to bring themselves satisfaction and pleasure!

Life is just a few decades short, you can’t take the money you earn with you when you’re born or dead, keeping it is just a bunch of numbers, only money spent is called money! Only money in circulation has meaning.”

Life Is Pretty Good took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes and said to his four secretaries:

“Go offline and find materials, I want to see the operation plan for Village No. 1’s casino within 3 days, if you feel you need field research to give you enough inspiration, then go to Las Vegas or Macau this afternoon.

This investigation will be reimbursed by the company.

I only have one requirement.

I want you to replicate the internal working of casino operations as much as possible, I need development points! I only want development points!”

“No, this approach has some risks, boss.”

The most steady Sinking Fish shook her head and reminded:

“Lord Murphy and Regent Miriam haven’t explicitly banned gambling only because such a large-scale systematic business model has never appeared in this land before, I’m worried that starting like this will make you receive unexpected punishment.

Therefore my opinion is, why not try downgrading first, test the management’s attitude, if they acquiesce to our operation, then we four will definitely come up with a plan that satisfies you.

If this attempt violates the administrative office’s taboos, we can also cut losses in time.”

“Hmm, makes sense.”

Old Huo woke up from that state of inspirational storm and curiously asked:

“So, regarding attempts in this area, do you have any good ideas?”

“Yes!”

Sinking Fish nodded with certainty and said:

“Gambling can be large or small scale, but their essence is the same, as you said, the fundamental logic of any gambling behavior comes from the pursuit of ‘uncertainty’ in human nature and the desire to ‘control everything.’

If so, we can first reduce the scale and adopt a legal and compliant gambling model, what I mean is, lottery! To be more precise, if it’s just an attempt, we don’t even need large-scale sales and preliminary preparation, just need a small lottery that can be redeemed at any time.”

“I know I know! Scratch cards!”

The youngest Shy Flower reached out her hand and said:

“My family runs a lottery shop, scratch cards are the best-selling mass product, I’ve never seen a lottery shop owner lose money on scratch cards.

I’ll go offline and home right away to ask my parents.

But the production of these things needs scaled machinery, does Transia have anything similar?”

“Yes!”

Old Huo nodded and said:

“Earlier when Little Rich Brother was buying guns from Little Countess Sharon, he said he saw Sharon using something similar to a typewriter. If they have typewriters, then making simple printing machines is also a piece of cake.”

“Boss, we’d better do this with locals, even if something goes wrong we can have them take the fall.”

Hidden Moon, who majored in business management and minored in law, suggested quietly:

“You can’t bet your political career in Transia on this one, and in the future when we do this kind of business we also need to build good relationships with local power departments.

No need to say much about Baron Maxim, his personal prestige can be built up, but the Blood Rat Gang walking in the grey area is a bit difficult.

Unless we’re willing to join them”

“Then let’s join.”

Old Huo waved his hand indifferently and said:

“I personally am already a Trickster, a ‘cultist’ in the eyes of others on this continent, with this BUFF stacked so full, joining a thieves’ organization isn’t a big deal, you go busy yourselves with your things.

Leave handling relations with the Blood Rat Gang to me, we are players, we are a whole, this means we have almost endless connections we can use.

Ah, Transia, this barbaric land reminds me of that old chicken soup for the soul

You know, that story about the shoe salesman going to Africa.

That story looks almost like an IQ filter in reality, but now I really feel like I’m that unfortunate or fortunate shoe salesman.

Well, sisters, do you think we five might be able to create a business empire in Transia in the future?”

Life Is Pretty Good joked:

“Such favorable conditions given to us and without any competitors, I feel we might create something more impressive here than in reality in the future. When that time comes, I’ll give you four shares.

Ha, we should also give our company a name, let’s call it the ‘Transia Entertainment and Leisure Industry Guild’.”