After all, if he didnât miscalculate, he could fix this kind of damaged car in no more than 10 minutes.
"Huh?"
Zeng Dexing turned his head, looking incredulously at the master, and asked, "Master, you play this game too?"
"Why canât I play it?"
The old master blew his beard and stared, "Do you think Iâm too old and dim-eyed to play the games you young people play?"
"No... I just..."
Zeng Dexing stammered, trying to defend himself, but the master waved his hand and said, "Alright, I know what youâre trying to say."
"These video games, I definitely donât play them usually, after all, Iâm old and canât understand most of them."
"But âSpeeding Frenzyâ is different, this is my specialty, my old craft! If I canât understand this, wouldnât all these years have been in vain?"
"Moreover, I donât just play this game for passing time, itâs also to make money..."
Make money?!
The masterâs words left Zeng Dexing completely astounded.
This master he recently apprenticed to looks at least in his fifties. Itâs already beyond his expectations for someone this age to play games, but what did he just hear?
Playing games can earn you money?
What does this mean? During the day he repairs cars, and at night heâs either a game companion or a game trader, or a power-leveler?
Youâre really something!
The masterâs strange look naturally didnât escape the old masterâs notice, and he chided unhappily, "What are you thinking? When I say earning money, I mean opening a shop and repairing cars in the game!"
"Opening a shop and repairing cars in the game?"
"Exactly!"
"Traditional dining industries are now integrated with the internet, and have started with services like food delivery. So why canât our car repair industry integrate with the internet too, and repair cars in games? Itâs only reasonable, right?"
Zeng Dexing: "..."
It made so much sense that he was speechless.
Through the masterâs explanation, he finally understood what opening a shop and repairing cars in the game meant, and what the master meant by making money from playing games.
It turns out, in the game âSpeeding Frenzyâ, the physics engine is extremely realistic and powerful, and the cars are fragile and get damaged upon collision.
If the car is broken, it needs to be repaired!
Thanks to this gameâs realistic physics engine, the repair process is not much different from real-life car repairs.
Among the players, how many actually know how to repair cars?
If someone doesnât know how, they have to find players who can repair cars or seek help from NPCs.
NPC repairs are expensive!
Itâs more cost-effective to find players to do the repairs, and whatâs more, once agreed upon, you donât even need to pay game coins, regular customers can directly scan a code to pay in cash.
"Two or five yuan at a time doesnât seem like a lot, but fixing a car in the game doesnât take much time either."
The old master explained to Zeng Dexing that in âSpeeding Frenzyâ, the more experienced a repairman is, the faster they can fix the cars.
Because they can identify the problem at a glance and know where to start quickly, like him, seasoned repairmen are quite in demand in the game.
Small or big damaged cars, fixing seven or eight or even ten in an hour is no big deal.
Every night, by working for one or two hours in front of the computer, earning seventy or eighty yuan isnât difficult at all.
"You can earn that much!"
"It accumulates, although the unit price is low, the volume is large, and with many regular customers, you can earn more."
The master told Zeng Dexing that he has an old buddy who doesnât even work at the repair shop anymore and spends every day in the game fixing cars.
As a result, his salary is higher than when he worked at the repair shop, easily making ten thousand a month, and if a bit more diligent, three or four ten thousand is not a problem.
"Awesome!"
Zeng Dexing couldnât help his envy upon hearing this.
Making so much just by playing games at home? Thatâs fantastic!
This car repair is really a great industry, finding work offline and doing part-time online, earning double for one skill, itâs simply too cool!
"Hehe!"
Seeing that the young man was allured by his few words, the old master immediately showed a mysterious smile.
Young people, theyâre too naive!
Even though everything he said was true, there was one thing he didnât tell Zeng Dexing.
And that is that the impact of the game âSpeeding Frenzyâ on the auto repair industry isnât just as simple as finding a part-time job online.
Now coming to learn auto repair?
Good good good!
This is clearly someone who hasnât suffered yet and doesnât know how harsh the future employment environment is.
...
Chen Ba was aware of the Automotive Repair Vocational Skills Competition held by Feixiang Internet Cafe and also sponsored a 20,000 yuan prize.
Donât ask why he sponsored it.
If asked, itâs just that he felt apologetic, after all, his creation âSpeeding Frenzyâ offended quite a few people in the auto repair industry.
How did it offend them?
This needs to be talked about after âSpeeding Frenzyâ became popular, with the blossoming of auto repair teaching posts and entry-level to advanced guides on community forums.
The destructive power of these things isnât terrifying, purely guides and teachings are everywhere online, but these combined with the game âSpeeding Frenzyâ and its realistic physics engine...
Oh no!
This has turned into specialized software for training auto repair workers, letting everyone learn basic auto repair skills.
The auto repair industry suddenly had tens of thousands of newcomers who were theoretically proficient, albeit somewhat awkward and clumsy in practice, could still fix things given enough time, what does this mean?
It means the auto repair industry has suddenly become the most competitive!
Itâs about to roll up to the sky...
Technically skilled and experienced auto workers can still hold their ground and keep their jobs.
But those who were just shams, lacking technical skills and experience, or auto repair apprentices, have been so squeezed they canât even afford to eat.
In the past, repair shops would still give apprentices opportunities to practice, but now basically, they donât.
The reason is simple...
If you send an apprentice, the customer will say, "Forget it, his skills arenât even as good as mine!"
Or the customer stands by pointing things out, making the apprentice nervous and afraid, causing them to take forever to fix one car.
Even worse, the customer does it themselves and then has to pay a labor fee to the shop, sarcastically called "paid practice," and the shop owner is too embarrassed to charge.
The number of âSpeeding Frenzyâ players isnât large, at most reaching millions.
While it seems like a million players have a minimal impact on billions of people, isnât it possible that the auto repair industry itself doesnât have many people?
The number of people in the industry is at most ten million!
And among these ten million, you have to eliminate those who do training or are bosses, sitting in offices without actual responsibilities.
So when you do the math, the actual auto repair industry has only a few million people. Based on this scale, suddenly having a third or a fourth of "Zhao Kuo" auto repairers enter the scene would definitely create a huge impact.
"In Jiangchuan, 1,270 new auto repair shops opened in half a year!"
Lu couldnât help but laugh and said, "Itâs too competitive, too competitive! I canât even imagine how these people curse Ba privately..."
Ba is extremely heinous!
He created so many theory-rich auto repair workers, but the key is that âSpeeding Frenzyâ can continuously train newcomers, making the auto repair industry overcrowded.
If they donât curse him, then who will?
Car companies will thank Ba, thinking âSpeeding Frenzyâ is a great game. But people in the auto repair industry, especially those whose livelihoods are threatened, donât think so.
Cutting off someoneâs livelihood is like killing their parents!
This sentence is the true portrayal of many people, and even though âSpeeding Frenzyâ hasnât reached the point of cutting off anyoneâs livelihood, it is incredibly unpleasant.
"If one day there are too many reports and the game gets banned and taken down, I wonât be surprised at all!"
Chen Ba sighed.
âSpeeding Frenzyâ has been reported so many times, itâs a bit like âDivine Grace Continentâ.
Itâs just that âDivine Grace Continentâ opened up a new path and eliminated a batch of conservatives. While it affected their share, it also added new shares to the cake.
âSpeeding Frenzyâ didnât add any new shares, so itâs normal to be resented and reported.