Lorenzo’s hand was shaking.
From anger and fear—and because the numbers didn’t make sense to him.
This debt made him feel completely baffled. How could it be this high?
How did that bastard Yun Xinghe even dare?
And did Wen Xishu know about this?
The score was 168 points.
Zone D had previously accumulated 43 points, spent 25 to win the Zone A assets, leaving 18 points. Zone A’s assets were worth 63, for a total of 81.
The final result—
After getting screwed over by Wen Xishu, Zone D went from 43 points to owing 87.
In the next three days, Lorenzo had to schedule overtime, and somehow pull in 87 points within three days.
An average of 29 points a day—neatly, not a point more or less, which meant each person working exactly two hours of overtime.
Lorenzo wasn’t incapable of pushing this much overtime. In fact, even though the employees’ dr values were no longer visible, they could still grind out 87 points.
It was just that Lorenzo absolutely could not rush into sending out an expedition.
First, it would increase the point consumption. Second, the expedition check might not even pass.
In other words, from this moment on, the assets Lorenzo had just bought from Yun Xinghe... the expedition Level was useless, and the points were in the red.
Pure trash. Absolute trash.
...
...
Zone C.
When they saw that Zone A’s debt also belonged to Zone D...
Tang Zhe suddenly understood.
No wonder Boss Wen didn’t take it. It wasn’t that he couldn’t afford it—he’d calculated that Zone A came with debt.
Tang Zhe said:
"Boss Wen, I have to admit your decision was absolutely right."
At this moment, even those job-hoppers from Zone A were a bit dumbfounded...
So their peace had actually been financed by Yun Xinghe’s loans?
Clark Kent felt a chill in his heart.
Yun Xinghe taking out loans meant they’d definitely have to be repaid... If they’d stayed in Zone A, things later would’ve been no different than Hell.
He couldn’t help asking:
"How many points will Zone D owe?"
Wen Xishu said:
"Right now there are two ways to restore hp."
"One is the natural daily recovery of five points."
"As long as 1 point of population maintenance is successfully deducted, you recover 5 points."
"The other way is buying medicine from the vending machines. Very cost-inefficient—it takes 3.33 points for 1 hp."
Wen Xishu had already tested this data the first time Shen Changfeng worked overtime.
"From what I recall, Yun Xinghe almost never bought medicine. Not almost... he didn’t buy any at all."
"Yun Xinghe’s points for the first three days were like this: Day One, 70 points; Day Two, 87 points; Day Three, 74 points."
"Which means I’m not including Day Four, because on Day Four Yun Xinghe received personnel from Zone B."
"Looking only at the first three days: Yun Xinghe’s overtime points were 39 on Day One, plus 55 on Day Two, plus 42 on Day Three. So in three days, overtime brought in a total of 136 points."
"One hour of overtime gives 0.5 points and costs 5 hp. That means your total hp loss was 1,360 points."
"You could almost say that in three days, Yun Xinghe squeezed half your lives away. Of course, that’s the average—some people did more overtime, some less."
"Yun Xinghe would definitely prioritize applying the loan to those who worked the most overtime."
"I also asked the old employees from Zone A about the hp of the dead—Peng Shan and Zelatan. Peng Shan had 30 hp, Zelatan had 10."
"Out of that 1,360 hp, these two dead ones account for 160. Take them out, and you lot should have lost 1,200 hp."
"In the first three days, there were 28 of you still alive, with a total Life Value of 2,800. So the 28 of you have 1,600 total Life Value left."
"That’s an average of 57.143 hp per person. Each of you is close to half a life."
"But I found that the average Life Value of you 28 old employees didn’t match. When I calculated it, the average was actually 69.1."
"In other words, Yun Xinghe took out a total loan of 336 hp!"
"Combine that with what I said earlier: if you buy medicine, it’s 1 point for 3 hp."
"At that price, Zone D’s debt would be 112 points."
"But it’s definitely more than that."
"Because loans have to be worse than medicine in terms of cost performance. The downside of loans is that they’re less cost-effective. So why did Yun Xinghe still choose loans?"
"Because loans don’t immediately deduct points. Buying medicine to treat employees deducts points instantly."
"To maintain his expedition eligibility, Yun Xinghe obviously couldn’t spend points on medicine early on—he could only use loans."
"Loans are delayed consumption. What you spend now only gets deducted ten days later."
"It’s not cost-effective, but ten days later, Yun Xinghe might’ve been able to fight wars to pay back his loans."
"Just like those war-loving countries. When their national debt has issues, they look for an excuse to attack another country."
Wen Xishu paused, then said with a smile:
"My guess is... the loan rate is about 2 points for 1 hp."
"If I’m right, then Zone D has at least 168 points of debt. Subtract Zone D’s original points, and they’ll need to earn 87 points in three days."
Clark’s mouth parted slightly in surprise.
Boss Wen’s eye for detail was practically cheating—how did he remember so much?
You have to understand, a lot of info was just flashing on the electronic screen for a moment, and then couldn’t be checked again...
But he seemed to remember it all at a glance.
So this knack for ’cheating’—did it come from cheat-level memory and observation?
After this round of analysis, everyone was utterly convinced by Wen Xishu.
Tang Zhe said:
"Zone D should be honest now, right?"
Wen Xishu looked at the electronic screen and said:
"Different bosses have different styles. Zone D isn’t that annoying—they pursue profit, but they’re relatively restrained."
"I need someone to go to Zone D to pass on a message, to give them a bit of a scare. That way we can make sure everyone stays peacefully in their own lane going forward."