"Who was it?!"
"Who the hell was it?!"
While Shen Fei, completely unfazed, continued to recharge his account and merge towers, the boss at the headquarters of the *Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms* game company was like a furious lion. He had summoned all the department heads for a meeting.
Just a moment ago, a joint law enforcement team had entered his company. They had turned his company upside down in a thorough overnight investigation. In the end, the law enforcement team left only after finding no irregularities.
After seeing the law enforcement team off with a lingering sense of fear, the boss finally exploded.
A week ago, Shen Fei had warned him that the game's information had been exposed. In response, he had arranged for his subordinates to investigate. In the end, only a few small-fry employees took the fall and were fired. The boss hadn't expected that the matter wasn't over. The real mole was apparently still around.
The only people with access to player transaction data were members of upper management. While high-level employees in departments like finance, operations, technology, and customer support could view it, these individuals were all bona fide senior executives of the company!
Looking at the group of pretentious department heads before him, the boss swore he would find the mole.
"Who was it?!"
"You'd better confess now!"
"Otherwise, if I find you, don't blame me for showing no mercy and sending you to jail!" the boss said viciously.
He was furious!
Fortunately, thanks to Shen Fei's warning a week ago, the boss had taken care of some tax matters. Otherwise, even if they hadn't found any issues with the "Skyrocketing" account today, his company might not have gotten off so easily.
At this moment, the boss swore he would find the mole. He had been scared!
His game and company had finally gotten a huge boost in popularity because of the 300-million-recharge whale incident. He never imagined that what would follow immediately after was an investigation. The boss swore he would root out the leaker. His eyes wide, he scanned the faces of the department heads before him, trying to figure out who it was.
Unfortunately... no one responded.
"Boss..."
Suddenly, the head of the finance department timidly raised his hand.
"What?"
"It was you?!"
The boss lunged forward and grabbed the finance head by the collar.
"No, no, no!" The finance head waved his hands frantically. "I was going to say, that person recharged again! He recharged again!!"
The finance head pulled up a screen on his computer. And then, the boss saw that the "Skyrocketing" account had just recharged another one hundred million...
"From now on, any request to view the information of a customer who has spent over 500,000 must go through my personal approval, especially their transaction history!" He hadn't expected Shen Fei to continue recharging after raising his concerns. This proved that this whale hadn't abandoned their game. Overjoyed, the boss loudly issued his new orders.
The whale hadn't left his game because of the information leak. The matter with the investigation team was also over. His emotions having gone through a roller coaster of ups and downs, the boss gasped for breath...
The boss quickly made new arrangements. No matter what, the first priority was to keep the Krypton Gold whale happy.
"Alright, you're all dismissed! Get back to work!"
Since no one had confessed during the internal inquiry, he would initiate a special, independent investigation. The boss waved his hand, dismissing all the executives.
Is the game really that fun?
After everyone had left, the game company boss couldn't help but open *Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms* himself. Of course, he had played the game his company developed before, but he had always used a GM account. At this moment, he wanted to experience it properly, from the perspective of a player.
Shen Fei's massive recharges struck the boss as incredible. He was even beginning to suspect that his own game might truly be a masterpiece for the ages...
...
WHOOSH.
WHOOSH.
WHOOSH.
「In the game,」
Shen Fei ignored the constant harassment from Immortal Emperor llllllll8's megaphone messages. He also ignored the world channel, which was spammed with people trying to add him as a friend.
He continued to rapidly synthesize Defense Towers. The fact that he was a Krypton Gold whale had been exposed, which had inadvertently attracted a lot of attention. But after thinking about it, Shen Fei decided not to ask the game company to hide his information. Nor did he ask the game company to set up a special, one-person server for him so he could quietly recharge and increase his power.
With the amount of money he had recharged, he could have even bought a significant number of shares in the game company. If he told the game company that he wouldn't stop recharging, and in fact would spend even more, on the condition that they hide his information or give him his own private server, the game company would have definitely agreed. After all, besides his enormous recharge amounts, the company was also at fault for leaking his information.
But after thinking it over, he decided against it.
Because he was worried something would go wrong! There was a rule regarding the future inheritance of game abilities: GM accounts and related internal game accounts, like shills, would be unable to inherit their abilities. It would be disastrous if his game account was identified as an internal account.
Although being on the recharge leaderboard was a bit high-profile, he didn't make any special arrangements in order to maintain the "purity" of his account.
There were only about ten days left anyway. His time in the spotlight would be over soon...
It was also due to this fear of being classified as an internal account that he had avoided communicating too much with the game company. Instead, he had only left two messages through the official VIP channel. Otherwise, he could have contacted his dedicated VIP customer service representative or even the game company's boss directly. If he had them add all sorts of flashy features to the game, then with his massive recharges, the things he would inherit in the future would be even greater and more diverse.
Unfortunately, he didn't dare. If he said too much and his game account was deemed an internal one, all his efforts would be for nothing...
WHOOSH.
WHOOSH.
WHOOSH.
Having decided not to get entangled with the game company, Shen Fei continued to synthesize Defense Towers.
[Ding!]
[You have synthesized a Tenth Tier Special Ultimate Defense Tower—Zhuge Liang Defense Tower]
[Your Combat Power has increased by 100,000!]
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[Ding!]
[You have synthesized a Tenth Tier Special Ultimate Defense Tower—Light Prism Tower Defense Tower]
[Your Combat Power has increased by 100,000!]
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[Ding!]
[You have synthesized a Tenth Tier Special Ultimate Defense Tower—Biochemical Cannon Defense Tower]
[Your Combat Power has increased by 100,000!]
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[Ding!]
[You have synthesized a Tenth Tier Special Ultimate Defense Tower—Big Saw Blade Cutting Defense Tower]
[Your Combat Power has increased by 100,000!]
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「Two hours later,」
Shen Fei's Defense Tower count once again reached the maximum, a total of 612 towers! These 612 max-level Tenth Tier Defense Towers of various types brought his Combat Power to an astonishing sixty-seven million plus. He was far ahead of the second-ranked player, "Taiyi Zhenren," who had 7.3 million.
Shen Fei also noticed that the name "Immortal Emperor llllllll8" had appeared on the Combat Power rankings. That guy was also the type who was ruthless and didn't talk much. After being provoked by Shen Fei, he had spent the whole night spending money to climb the ranks...
Next up is Defense Tower Enhancement!
Because his recharge information had been exposed, Shen Fei felt a sense of urgency. Having maxed out his Defense Tower count again, he was ready to keep going. Without sleeping, he directly opened his Defense Tower list. He was preparing to apply Enhancements to all of his Defense Towers...