Beta Run 2

East of Azfield Town is a map suitable for level 5 – 10 players. There are also over 1000 players leveling on this map. Luckily the map was quite large, so player stealing kills rarely happen. Everybody was so focused on leveling, nobody was trying to play PK(Player Kill) on this map.

Around 15 minutes on this map, all of them reached level 10. The co-operation between them overpowering any monster on the map, adding 10x more experience during this beta run, they were leveling like a breeze.

Many of the features on Earth 2.0 will be unlocked at level 1 during the BETA run. For example, party mode, personal storage, player store, and so on. Gan Li created a party, with a party it was easy to communicate between them. As Gan Li used to order people around in the kitchen, he automatically became the party leader. Sui Jianguo and Yen Qiang did not have any problem with that.

After buying their supplies again, all of them went to the third map North of Azfield Town. The recommended player on this map is between level 10 to level 20. Therefore, a level 8 player will easily die here without a good tanker.

Sui Jianguo, Yen Qiang, and Gan Li followed the strategy given to them by Zhang Wei. They only attack monsters 1 level above them in order to level up smoothly. Trying to kill a monster 2 levels above will yield more experience. However, this will lead to a more difficult situation, mostly resulting in death. Since their main goal on this beta run was not to level up quickly but to get used to the game mechanic. This is what Zhang Wei told them to do.

They didn't even bother challenging their tier quest. From level 11 to level 49, a player is qualified to challenge their tier quest. If a player succeeds with the tier challenge, he will be named a Tier 1 player, with massive bonus stats and attributes awarded upon changing to Tier 1. Hence, changing the tier as early as possible is the best way to level up faster. However, again since this is a beta run, a lot of players were uninterested in challenging the tier quest.

While Sui Jianguo, Yen Qiang, and Gan were leveling at a slow pace on the third map, inside the AOSIS Building 2nd floor, 1000 players were playing Earth 2.0. All the new employees were asked to familiarize themselves with the game. On Nov 1, 2030, they will start their new job inside the game. When they told their friends and family they were playing Earth 2.0 for their new company, most of them couldn't believe it.

Playing E2.0 while being paid handsomely? Who doesn't want to! As a result, the AOSIS company group became the talk of the town. A lot of people were looking for an opportunity to join the company. Some even went to the company HQ applying for a job application.

Someone made a fake viral news claim that the AOSIS representative was offering 1000 open interviews at the company HQ building. Other companies also made the same job vacancy advertisement, however, only a few jobs were available.

The fake news generated a wild response from the online community. Even though the AOSIS company made it clear about the fake job interview on their website, around 3000 enthusiasm still showed up during the stated day for the open interview.

In the end, the security department for AOSIS company made a request from the local police station to send help due to some enthusiasm starting to start off a scene.

Zhang Wei knew about this incident, but he let Ms. Lim deal with it. Since that day, AOSIS has become one of the famous new companies in Shenzhen. People started to check on who owned the new investment company, what kind of business they really run.

Newsmen, magazines, and online media representatives began asking for interviews with the company's CEO. Everybody wanted to know why the new company was willing to spend so much money on a new game.

Li Wei is one of the new employees, cycling to the AOSIS building every day since the day he was offered the job. Around 6.00 am early in the morning, Li Wei started off his journey to the AOSIS building. By 6:45 a.m., he will reach the company's front gate.

The company gave all the new employees a flexible 12 working hours. If you start at 9:00 am, you will have to complete your 12 hours mandatory with 1 hours rest in between. There is no policy like the usual job starting at 8 am till 5 pm schedule.

Li Wei worked over 12 hours per day, he does not have anything to do besides work. He has only a few real-life friends, he does not have a girlfriend, his father was sick, and his family owned a lot of debt. Most of his time was spent finding extra money for his family. Therefore, he put more effort into this game compared to the other 999 employees.

Soon, his efforts caught Ms. Lim's attention, he was among the new employees being monitored by her. Her boss gave her a specific task of monitoring a few among these 1000 employees.

"Good morning Li Wei, you are early again today." A young female around 20 years old was standing next to the door lift.

"Good morning too, for the second time you are also quite early. Can't sleep again?" On the previous day, both of them had a short conversation for the first time.

"Yes, I woke up too early, so I decided to come early to beat the traffic." Answered Leana Wen with a cute smile.

"Oh, I see." Li Wei rarely talks to any female before, so he does not know how to continue the conversation. When they reached the 3rd floor, he went straight to his capsule. Leana also went to her game capsule to log on to E2.0.

8:00 p.m. OCT 29, 2030. Day 49 on Earth. 3 Days From Launching Earth 2.0.

Zhang Wei was inside his hotel apartment room looking at his desktop computer.

Account 1 profit $87m - $20m = $67m

Account 2 profit $125m - $20m = $101m

Account 3 profit $209m - $20m = $189m

Account 4 profit $620m - $20m = $600m

Total Net Profit = $67m+$101m+$189m+$600m-$2m = $955m @ 6.7 Billion Yuan.

Even though Zhang Wei had prepared himself for the number, he was still astonished looking at it. His initial investment of $80m had become a staggering $955m, close to a billion dollars in just 6 weeks! This is an insanely huge profit, if someone sees this number, it will shock them to death.

Zhang Wei: Alice, all of your historical data were quite on the mark, we made a lot of money using your data.

Alice: Nothing to be proud of, I am just giving you the data provided to me before. There is less than 0.0001% chance of data error.

Zhang Wei: Still, this is quite an amazing figure. Anyway, what is the percentage of my mission progress at the moment? I haven't checked it for a while.

Alice: 0.97%.

Zhang Wei: What!? Only 0.97% after all the work I have done for over a month?

Alice: Yes, 0.97%.

Zhang Wei: I should never ask you this question again. It is quite depressing getting your answer.

Zhang Wei closed the trading account website and began searching for any hot news about E2.0. When he looked at the E2.0 official forum, it was bombarded with complaints and requests to remove the PK mode on beginners.

The E2.0 forum admin replied was very simple, it is only a beta run, but on the official server the system will protect the beginner, explain the representative. He also added more information about PK and PVP (Player Vs. Player) Mode.

Level 1 – 10 = No PK / PVP allowed.

Level 11 – 49 = NO PK ALLOWED. Semi PVP allowed, user needs to request a match on any map. The difference level between players must be less than 5 levels.

Level 50 to 99 = PK / PVP is allowed on certain PVP maps. The difference level between players must be less than 10 levels.

Level 100 at above = PK / PVP IS ON. ALL MAP. NO RESTRICTION.

The game also provides a large number of PVP rooms for players to fight from level 11 and above. Go to the Coliseum for those who want to become the number one PVP player.

The E2.0 representative answered only a few requests or questions. Some players even request for the town name to be changed into a ridiculous name. After surfing for a while, Zhang Wei couldn't see any more important news on the site, so he closed his browser and opened his investment online account again.

In 2 weeks' time, there will be a huge event to occur. A certain well-known country will go bankrupt for the first time in 100 years. In 2 weeks, the president of the country XXX will announce to the world that his country is on the verge of bankruptcy and urgently needs cash injection from other countries.

Zhang Wei will use this advanced information by selling the said country's currency and buying the US and other major currencies online. He will place $500m as his initial investment and open a long position as SELL XX/ against 10 other major currencies. After everything was done, he sent a coded email message to Ms. Lim.

The next day, when Ms. Lim opened his email and decoded the message from her boss, she almost fell down from the shock! $500,000,000.00 where on earth she is going to find the $500m!