Chapter 10 “Sub Player at Home Part 2”
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Dismissively waving his paws: “That’s easy, drag it out. If I can’t drag out the meeting, we can just break up. Isn’t that how most online relationships are like? I got plenty of experience in this department. But that’s not the issue in this case. The girl you heard is also a pure-blooded monster girl so you can stop worrying.”
Hearing this, Dawn couldn’t help but ask himself the important question: is it possible for some of the netizens he met before to be monsters as well? Right now, he’s got a natural urge to open up a forum and check out his idea.
“So you’re gaming every day like this?” he asks.
“What do you mean by gaming? I am making money. This is work, you understand? I am a sub-player.” Boink said triumphantly.
The concept of sub-players wasn’t new to Dawn. Before, when he was in university, he also did a period of gaming with his pals in school. It’s just that he wasn’t skilled enough to be paid like Boink.
The hamster continues to explain: “For example, the game I just played is to help clear a boss to compete on the ladder board. If I’m diligent and work hard, I can even earn several hundred dollars a day without issue.”
“……” Dawn only had one word growing in his heart, which was all hail the breadwinner! Compared to the two here, he’s the only poor sob left in the house. Shadow’s rich, and the hamsterling had a good income source.
“This is a game? I don’t quite understand this yet, but how does a game make money?” Shadow, who’s been quietly listening from the side, finally spoke up.
Does he mean sitting at home all day and staring at a screen is enough to make someone give you money? This is too weird.
“It’s about helping other people play.” Dawn shrugs and feels how unfair the world was being again, “It’s difficult to explain it to you so let me think about it.”
Shadow was very patient, quietly waiting for the guy’s answer while Boink went ahead to enter the game world again with his headphone.
“To put it simply, what Boink is playing now is a kind of entertainment. It’s to pass the time, um… if you use an analogy, it is similar to the past when people liked to use grasshoppers to fight each other. Do you get it now?”
“OH! I’ve played with grasshoppers too.” Shadow nods in understanding.
“And about the internet… remember the smartphone and laptop we got? You use those devices to play games, and the internet is a network connecting those things even if you’re not together in a room. So millions of people are always online at one time. Boink’s job is helping someone else play if they don’t have time. He gets paid for it depending on the deal he makes.”
That confused Shadow: “But why? Why would someone spend money to have someone else entertain themselves instead? What logic is that? Is the head of you modern people all so weird?”
“You are not exactly wrong in your thinking. Let’s say you have a character in the game, something you own, and you want it to grow powerful. That takes time, a lot of time. Someone who doesn’t have time can use their own money to buy someone else’s time to help them. Boink is offering his time as the service. You get it?”
Dawn’s tone grew serious because he didn’t want to give the wrong idea to this catling: “Or think of it in another way. You like eating clams. An owner of a clam farm wouldn’t necessarily want to spend his time caring for the clams so he hires an employee to do it for him. He has money, and the employee has time but no money. Therefore, they exchange money for time, and both parties win.”
Understanding instantly dawns on the catling: “So that’s it, I get it now Landlord. Why didn’t you just say it like that earlier?”
“What, are you short on money?” Dawn suddenly got playful and teased her.
It’s reasonable to say the catling didn’t lack money in any way. She just earned tens of thousands of dollars from that gold nugget. Adding in the expense of living at Dawn’s home, Shadow should be able to live comfortably for several years. Besides, she also had exquisite cooking skills that most wouldn’t even dream of. Starving to death? That’s not possible for this lady.
Shadow grinned at his comment: “That’s not what I meant. I merely want to know more because it’s so interesting.”
I’m a cat… it’s only normal that I’m curious.