At the start, I tricked the school beauty, and ended up with twins?

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"What should we do? Should we hire some paid posters to flood it with negative reviews?"

After getting a grasp of Sword Barrier Network's situation, Boss Pu was the first to voice his thoughts.

In his opinion, the most straightforward method was to spend money to hire paid posters to rate Bi Jian's company's products straight down to one star.

Or simply have the paid posters relentlessly report the game to get Bi Jian's "Simulating Billionaire" removed from the shelves entirely.

Because according to normal platform rules, software and games with low ratings or a high number of reports will have their traffic weight reduced or even be taken down for rectification.

This could deal an enormous blow to Bi Jian's Sword Barrier Network.

However, although Boss Pu had made a suggestion, the three people, including Gu Yu, did not express agreement.

This method was quick and effective, but it wasn't honorable, and it couldn't take down Sword Barrier Network in one fell swoop.

After all, if the game was taken down, Bi Jian could modify it and continue to launch it on the platform.

Unless they kept hiring paid posters to leave reviews and report the game, which would cost them a considerable amount of manpower and financial resources.

It was not much different from the saying 'injure the enemy by a thousand, harm oneself by eight hundred.'

"Hiring paid posters is not a good idea, plus we need to take down Sword Barrier Network from the front—that's the only way to completely break people like Bi Jian mentally,"

Gu Yu pondered for a moment, outright rejecting Boss Pu's suggestion and clenching his fist to show his determination.

If they just made Bi Jian's game go offline on Shengda Game Platform, it wouldn't stop Bi Jian from continuing with Sword Barrier Network.

To truly hit Bi Jian where it hurts, they must directly force Sword Barrier Network into shutdown.

[Special Task Released: Make "Life Restart Simulator" from Ideal Paradise utterly defeat "Simulating Billionaire" from Sword Barrier Network! Reward: 10,000 Check-in Points!]

Gu Yu was stunned; he hadn't expected the system to throw a hand in at this time.

Luckily, everyone was deep in thought at this moment and had not noticed his odd expression.

And he quickly regained his composure.

...

The three of them felt for the first time that their business knowledge was severely lacking.

Taking down Sword Barrier Network head-on might sound easy, but it was fraught with difficulties.

They might be qualified programmers, but they were not qualified business managers.

To put it unpleasantly, they were business illiterates!

Though Qin Shan had been exposed to some of this knowledge through writing novels, the world in books was ultimately very different from reality.

If they really applied the theories from the books to actual business, Ideal Paradise would most likely go under before it could grow!

They needed to find someone who understood business operations to manage Ideal Paradise!

But where could they find such a person?

And this person had to be extremely trustworthy too!

Managing a company was no trivial matter!

Just as the four of them were racking their brains, Gu Yu's phone suddenly started ringing with a voice call.

Gu Yu picked up the phone to see that it was his girlfriend, Lin Xinyue!

His eyes lit up!

Yes! Wasn't Xinyue specialized in business management? And having grown up in a family that runs a business, she must also be well-versed in a lot of business operation knowledge!

"We could have my girl handle the management!"

Gu Yu shook the still-ringing phone, and the faces of Boss Pu and the other two lit up.

Yes! How could they have forgotten about Laosi's girlfriend?

Lin Xinyue's major was exactly what they needed!

And when it came to trust, aside from themselves, wasn't Lin Xinyue the most trustworthy?

Well, that solved the management personnel issue!

"Quick, answer the phone!"

Yu Laoer urged.

Gu Yu quickly answered the call.

"Hey, Xinyue, I've got something I want to discuss with you, it's just that my company is short of management, and I was wondering if you might be interested in…"

"Yu, let's not talk about this for now! Do you have any money on you? Can you lend me some? No no no, lend it to my bestie Ya!"

Gu Yu hadn't even finished speaking when Lin Xinyue interrupted him.

Her voice was very anxious, as if she was going through something urgent.

One could vaguely hear the sound of arguing on the other end of the line.

"What happened? What's going on over there?"

Gu Yu's heart tightened and his brows furrowed as he hastily asked.

"Ah, it's a long story, I'll video call you instead!"

Lin Xinyue's urgency remained undiminished as she switched to video.

Gu Yu could now see her situation, Lin Xinyue and Hu Xiaoya were in a simply decorated lobby, and the arguing sounds that he had just heard were coming from Hu Xiaoya.

In the video, Hu Xiaoya was loudly arguing with a brawny man at the reception.

One could barely make out a blue cargo ship logo behind the muscleman on the partition wall.

Below the logo was a line of white text—Yue Tian Capital Trading Company, with the ear-radical knocked off the word for 'limited'.

"Pay up and leave! If you don't pay, neither of you is walking out of here today!"

The burly man with gold earrings and a gold necklace and a face full of flesh rolled up his sleeves to reveal a pair of white tiger tattoos, assertively leaning on the desk and bellowing at Hu Xiaoya.

"On what grounds? I came here to get my money back from you guys! It was Yue Tian Capital who sent me to borrow from Jinxin Credit in the first place! You're clearly in this together!"

"Now that Yue Tian Capital has disappeared, you must return my money! Thirty-eight thousand, not a penny less!"

Hu Xiaoya might have been slender, but wearing a full set of black leather, her presence didn't seem the least bit weaker than that of the six-foot-tall muscleman.

"Tch, stop playing dumb. We never lent you any money! On the contrary, Yue Tian Capital swindled forty thousand from us! Now that Yue Tian Capital has vanished, you, as their employee, naturally have to take responsibility!"

The muscleman stepped away from the reception, walking up to Hu Xiaoya and towering over her.

At the same time, two more men in black suits and sunglasses entered the frame, attempting to snatch the bag from Hu Xiaoya's hand.

Taking advantage of her petite size, Hu Xiaoya dodged and then ran towards Lin Xinyue.

"Xinyue, let's get out of here fast!"

Hu Xiaoya pulled Lin Xinyue toward the exit, but two more muscleman walked in the door and pushed them back into the lobby.

"Leave? Where you think you're going? Hand over the money if you're sensible, or I don't mind making you two young ladies suffer!"

The gold-chain muscleman sneered and walked up to Hu Xiaoya. When he noticed Lin Xinyue was on her phone recording, his eyes bulged:

"Stop recording! You two, grab her phone to prevent her from calling the police!"

Immediately, two suited muscleman stepped forward to try to snatch Lin Xinyue's phone.

Gu Yu nearly crushed his own phone in his grip when he saw this scene!

"Fuck! Don't you fucking touch my woman!" .net

The phone video jerked violently, and when it cleared again, the menacing face of that gold-chain muscleman filled the screen.

"Kid, send over forty thousand, and I'll let your woman go, oh and by the way, don't try any tricks, you know what I mean."

After the muscleman spoke, he didn't wait for Gu Yu to respond and the video was cut off.

Gu Yu was livid, his heart pounding furiously, his fists clenched tight.

But he knew he had to remain calm at this moment, he needed to be calm—Lin Xinyue was waiting for him to rescue her!

Just forty thousand? He had it!

First, get the people back, then talk!

Right then, his messenger app chirped several times— the address had been sent over.

Gu Yu took a couple of deep breaths and then looked at a few of his buddies.

"Guys, accompany me on a little trip?"

Boss Pu and the two others exchanged looks, not a single one showing fear.

All three nodded simultaneously.

"Let's go!"