I am a Big Player
Chapter 217 - 215, The Evolving Club (First Update)_1

Chapter 217: 215, The Evolving Club (First Update)_1

When Ren He told the others that they had a classroom as a permanent headquarters within the school, everyone was excited. Even the music clubs had to report and coordinate with the committee teachers for the use of the specialized music activity rooms, so having a permanent location was something many people dreamed of.

When Ren He went to collect the keys, Director Chen of the Academic Affairs Office glanced at him, "Since that classroom will belong to you from now on, its electricity bill will have to be paid by you, and you can use the part with the constant temperature machine room, but make sure not to damage the temperature control equipment inside."

"Rest assured," Ren He said cheerfully, as the constant temperature machine room could be used to set up the server for the online murder mystery game.

The plan was a series of linked steps: first, get initial funding from board game and card manufacturers, then, by the time the online version of the murder game was nearly complete, the money for the server would probably be almost in place. After all, playing a murder game online didn’t require the server capacity of a large 3D game.

The speed at which new things spread among students is always astonishing, as could be seen in the previous life on social media platforms. Because this group has clear characteristics: curious about the world, curious about new things, easily accepting new things, and often idle...

In high school, it wasn’t too obvious, but in college, it was particularly noticeable. The murder game quickly took over the forums of all college students, even showing a tendency to dominate!

The spread of the murder game this time was different from the previous life, where it had come from abroad. Although everyone played the game, they didn’t have much of a connection to its origin.

But this time, emanating from the prestigious No.4 Middle School, a board game developed by a high school student had the potential to spread as widely as playing cards, a feat that was legendary in itself.

Then it spread from the college student demographic to the IT and cutting-edge technology industries, and even abroad.

No one expected that just half a month later, the murder game would start to appear in major reports in foreign print media, officially spreading all over the globe!

Everything was unfolding at the pace of dissemination known from the previous life, as people marveled at the murder game. At this juncture, the murder game board game cards finally went on sale, and a beautifully crafted set was priced at 58 yuan, still selling over 30,000 sets within one day.

All of this was within Ren He’s expectations. Taking the sales numbers of games like "Three Kingdoms Kill" as an example, even with competition from similar board games like "Ronin Kill" and murder games, it still maintained an annual sales figure of several hundred thousand sets, with revenue surpassing 15 million yuan.

And now, with no competition for the murder game, it was Ren He’s most powerful card in hand!

The Qinghe Club became famous, and many people knew that all profits from the sales of the murder game were to be invested by Ren He into the club’s development without exception. Even the wealthiest academic elites couldn’t expect their parents to throw tens of millions at them to spend each year. Impossible.

The Qinghe Club became the embodiment of wealth and prestige in the eyes of all students, and the academic elites understood deeply that being a creator of a world-class game was enough leverage to gain admission to top Ivy League institutions in the United States.

If they had created something like Super Mario, it might not have been enough, even if the whole world was playing it. But the murder game was attracting a high-end audience, to the extent that even teachers at prestigious schools played it.

In other words, those who had once dismissed the people in the Qinghe Club might find themselves in a position where they would be choosing colleges, rather than the colleges choosing them.

Moreover, everyone could see how powerful the Qinghe Club would be in the future, owning their own industry always beat begging in society; it brought a kind of firm confidence!

Liu Bing and the others hesitated a bit after seeing just how much the murder game made from physical card sales alone, because the amount was so large that it became a psychological burden for them. They were well aware that the murder game was really just something Ren He was playing around with them. Could it be Ren He didn’t want all that money?

Yet in reality, Kunlun’s daily item sales had already crossed the 800,000 mark, with as many as 31 new servers opened, and the trend of item sales was still on the rise.

This meant that Kunlun was making more money in a month than the murder game made in a year domestically...

In such a scenario, Ren He naturally started to look down on the income from the murder game. What he wanted was fame.

From the time he traveled to this world, many of Ren He’s actions had been interlinked; developing Kunlun was for the future Dota, writing "The Kite Runner" was to test the waters for "Harry Potter," and creating the murder game was to ensure the healthy and robust growth of the Qinghe Club.

If you say Ren He didn’t have any self-interest, how could that be possible? He was not that kind of person...

Many media outlets wanted to interview the Qinghe Club for the scoop and ended up camping at the school gates, only for the headmaster to step forward directly; the school is a place for learning, and it’s not good to enjoy fame and fortune too early. The rules of No.4 Middle School have been like this for decades, and anyone who doesn’t follow them shouldn’t feel that a headmaster has no influence.

All the media understood one thing for sure; the influence of No.4 Middle School’s headmaster was no weaker than Elder Zhou’s, mainly because the students loved him dearly, and the students he produced were outstanding.

In his previous life, Ren He knew of an alumnus of No.4 Middle School who had entered the country’s highest echelons of power.

Just like the unspoken rule of No.4 Middle School that students’ achievements weren’t publicized, although all media knew that the murder game’s core team was from No.4 Middle School and even knew their names, not a single outlet reported it. Ren He was very grateful for No.4 Middle School’s long-standing policy of protecting its students. It was very wise.

Ren He didn’t know how much longer he could keep things from Su Ruqin, but it was clear that he would keep it secret as long as he possibly could...

So within the school, he could stir up as much as he wanted, but all external matters were handled by Liu Bing and Jiang Haoyang; he never showed up in person.

Ultimately, Ren He explained to Liu Bing and the others that he didn’t lack money; it was difficult to explain anything more.

Liu Bing and the others also noticed this issue; it seemed Ren He indeed never lacked money, but they still found it hard to imagine that the most lucrative cash magnet in the online gaming world belonged to Ren He. Perhaps in half a year’s time, China’s youngest billionaire would be born right before their eyes...

Ren He specially hired a renovation company to revamp the classroom the headmaster had given them, giving the entire classroom a more modern feel. The room was originally like a computer lab, twice as large as a normal classroom. The Academic Affairs Office originally did not allow them to renovate, but the headmaster still tacitly permitted it, even blatantly wanting to see what these students could make of a student club.

Everything seemed to be moving towards regularization. All the students in the school knew that the Qinghe Club was up to something big, but the results remained to be seen.

And at this time, it was also time for Ren He to complete his parkour task, with only one day left.

One hour to accumulate half an hour’s worth of obstacle traversal, Ren He had also chosen the location.