Zhao Feiyang: "You're a bug identified by the system. If you stay here, wouldn't this place become dangerous for me?"

Chu Nian: "If you don't let me stay, I'll make you drop to level one."

Zhao Feiyang really had no way to deal with her: she could reduce his level 98 to level 1 in less than a minute. Even if he wanted to make a move against Chu Nian, he would have to think twice about whether he could subdue this strange woman in such a short time.

He said, "Okay, you can stay here!" After a pause, he added, "High-level players like us shouldn't lack coins, right? You could actually buy a villa yourself."

Chu Nian immediately looked distressed and said, "I have no money. I only have a little bit of coins from leveling up. After reaching level two, I haven't killed anyone, so I haven't picked up any items dropped by others."

"Oh." Zhao Feiyang smiled somewhat awkwardly, "It does sound a bit... pitiful."

Chu Nian nodded heavily and said "Mmm," looking even more pitiful.

Zhao Feiyang: "But why didn't you take their belongings along with them when you demoted them?"

Chu Nian: "Uh..." She always thought that since these were virtual things, there was no point in stealing them, so she never thought of stealing them. Now that she thinks about it, she really did make a foolish mistake.

"Fine, just stay here and relax. I'll just hire a few more bodyguards," Zhao Feiyang said.

He was a reliable person in both words and deeds, and Chu Nian quickly found his job posting on Billboard, which still offered the same high salary as before.

The job openings at Xiangyang Villa were always popular, with many qualified applicants coming to apply. As it turned out, Chu Nian discovered that several of them were "old acquaintances."

Besides the few who applied for the maid position last time, there were several more people Chu Nian didn't recognize this time, and Zhang Xiaotong and Mao Yongheng even came to apply.

Because they are recruiting bodyguards, the application requirements this time are not as lenient as last time; applicants must be level 80 or above.

When the original owner last met them, Zhang Xiaotong and Mao Yongheng were level 65. In less than a month, they had already risen to level 80. It seems that after they teamed up, both of them really benefited a lot, and their strength increased rapidly.

Li Shuangshuang pulled Chu Nian aside and peeked into the living room from the kitchen, whispering with her about the female gamers who had applied for the maid position last time, and how they were actually in there this time as well.

Chu Nian smiled faintly and did not answer: She suspected that these female players wanted more than just to apply for the job.

The male lead is a heartthrob!

Perhaps hearing the voices coming from the kitchen, some of the job applicants in the hall turned to look in their direction. One of the female gamers who had applied last time immediately looked at Chu Nian and Li Shuangshuang and said mockingly, "Look, those two newbies from last time are still here, now they're maids."

"A level two newbie like him wouldn't even survive past level two if he weren't in the sunny villa! Tch!"

...

Their actions attracted the attention of others, and Mao Yongheng and Zhang Xiaotong both looked over in the direction of the female players.

Zhang Xiaotong's face stiffened instantly when her gaze fell on Chu Nian's face, while Mao Yongheng's forehead was covered in black lines. Finding that no one was paying attention to him, he walked straight towards Chu Nian and said impatiently as he approached the kitchen door, "Liu Nian, what are you doing here? Get the hell away from me!"

Presumably afraid of being discovered by the people inside the villa, he didn't speak loudly, and his voice was even drowned out by the conversations of the people who came to apply for the job. Since he had already reached the kitchen door, Chu Nian and Li Shuangshuang could hear him clearly.

Seeing his menacing approach, Li Shuangshuang was terrified and pulled Chu Nian, quickly running deeper into the kitchen. Her actions alerted the chefs in the kitchen, and the head chef, knife in hand, came out and stopped Zhang Xiaotong, who had just stepped into the kitchen: "Who goes there? How dare you trespass into the master's kitchen? Have you got a death wish?"

This head chef, named Jia Pingchang, is a player with a similar personality to Zhao Feiyang. However, his strength isn't as high as Zhao Feiyang's; he's only level 85, which is still several levels higher than Mao Yongheng.

Mao Yongheng was startled, not expecting the chefs in this villa to be so "hardcore". His face turned pale and he quickly retreated back into the hall.

Zhang Xiaotong angrily complained to him, "Are you crazy? What's the point of arguing with that bitch at a time like this? Can't you tell she's a maid here now?"

Mao Yongheng said with a forced smile, "I was just afraid you'd be unhappy if you saw her!"

Zhang Xiaotong: "Don't provoke her yet. As long as we get the job, we'll have plenty of opportunities to deal with her later." She paused, then added: "Both of us have tags above our heads indicating that we haven't recruited anyone into this game. This could very well be a condition for us to get the job, so we absolutely cannot let anyone know that it was you who recruited Liu Nian."

Chu Nian also noticed that there was something wrong with the labels above their heads.

She remembered that when the original owner last met them, Zhang Xiaotong's head tag showed that she had recruited "9" people, and Mao Yongheng's head tag showed that he had recruited "5" people.

But why have the labels on this scumbag and bitch changed now?

Everything has been reset to zero!

The remaining players had all recruited at least three people. This shows that players in this game are often ruthless and unscrupulous in their pursuit of survival. Recruiting others not only increases points and helps with leveling up, but sometimes also drops powerful equipment and skills, and even bodyguard NPCs.

Mao Yongheng and Zhang Xiaotong's labels were definitely tampered with, but could they have done it without the system's help? Chu Nian didn't believe the two of them had that ability.

Sure enough, the butler symbolically glanced around at the job applicants, and finally his gaze fell on Zhang Xiaotong and Mao Yongheng.

Under Zhao Feiyang's manipulation, the butler selected these two, along with two other guys who had only recruited three people each. Recruiting three people already made them the applicants with the fewest recruits.

However, Chu Nian was not satisfied. She walked out of the kitchen and said to the butler, "Are these four people really enough? I think we should hire two more." Then she pointed to the two highest-ranking people.

Both of them are already at level 96.

The butler immediately added the two of them as well.

The two, once selected, immediately exchanged a glance. They were originally a team, and it showed they had only been in the game for three months, yet they had already reached level 96 in such a short time, demonstrating their ruthless killing prowess.

Moreover, they had already recruited more than fifteen people, leading Chu Nian to guess that they were either antisocial or involved in organized crime in the real world.

The female players who applied for the maid position last time still failed to get the job, and they were all very angry. When they saw that the butler had actually selected two more capable people at Chu Nian's suggestion, they started whispering among themselves again.