This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 203 - 147: Car Repair Boosting? (Part 2)

"I’m a car mechanic!"

"Oh oh!"

Seeing the viewer reveal his identity, Ice Cola was overjoyed and quickly followed his instructions to remove the power steering pump.

"What next?"

"You unscrew the back cover screws of the steering pump, open the rear cover, and then check if the seal ring inside is damaged."

"It really is!"

After trying to figure it out for so long without finding the issue, it turned out that a professional solved it immediately.

Ice Cola let out a sigh of relief and said, "As expected, repairing cars should be left to the professionals! We ordinary players should just honestly go to a NPC for repairs."

This game is so hardcore!

At first, he thought he had made a great deal by buying a platinum version.

After all, in this game, the cars are so fragile that a slight scratch or collision requires maintenance and repair. And the platinum version came with a maintenance and modification workshop, which could save so much on repair costs!

But now it seems...

Ba certainly lives up to his reputation!

The maintenance and modification workshop gifted with the platinum version wasn’t meant for ordinary players. If you don’t know about cars or car repairs, even if you have a workshop, you can’t use it.

"I’m genuinely impressed!"

"Is it really this hardcore? I need to understand professional car repair knowledge to fix a car in the game?"

"The platinum version is completely for suckers!"

"I thought the platinum version had great value, but now it seems, this workshop is utterly useless..."

When they saw this, the viewers in the live room felt sorry for Ice Cola, who spent a lot on a platinum version that came with a maintenance and modification workshop.

End up not being able to use it at all?

Oh, wait!

It’s not that you can’t use it; if you know a little about car repair, then the workshop would be very useful indeed. But the problem is, how many players know such specialized knowledge?

...

Ice Cola’s live stream continued.

But the events in his live stream had already reached the Tianba Community and other live streams.

Guo Mo, who was also playing "Speeding Frenzy," lit up his eyes upon hearing this: "Oh? There’s actually something like this?"

He also bought the platinum version.

In this game, the vehicles are prone to damage, and maintenance costs are relatively high. And it wasn’t easy for players to earn game coins; they needed to participate in competitions and achieve excellent rankings to earn a bit of prize money.

So if the maintenance and modification workshop that came with the platinum version could be properly utilized, players could save a lot on vehicle repair costs.

But here’s the problem.

That thing is not usable!

To use this workshop for vehicle repairs, one must understand car repair knowledge, at least know the specific problem location.

If you don’t even know where the problem is, a maintenance workshop wouldn’t help you fix the car either...

Since he couldn’t use it, Guo Mo had always sent his vehicles to the NPC repair shop and never used the maintenance workshop that came with the platinum version.

But seeing what happened in Ice Cola’s live stream, a new world opened up for him!

Right!

If I can’t use it myself, and don’t understand this knowledge, why not get guidance from a professional car mechanic?

Coincidentally, Guo Mo had a classmate who owned a car repair shop.

He called up this friend.

"Hey? Qiangzi!"

"Here’s the thing, my car is broken and needs repairing. Do you think you could..."

About ten minutes later, Qiangzi, carrying a toolbox and wearing protective gloves, hurriedly arrived at Guo Mo’s home.

"The car’s broken?"

"Yeah... it’s broken!"

Faced with his old classmate’s angry glare, Guo Mo felt a bit guilty, "I’m not lying to you, the car really won’t start."

"You damn..."

Qiangzi was utterly exasperated, rushing there urgently, asked about the car’s location?

Then this guy actually told him the car was in the game! In the game?

He almost wanted to smack the wrench in his hand over his old classmate’s head, to let him know that such jokes shouldn’t be made.

He was a car mechanic, but he couldn’t repair cars in a game! Is he crazed from gaming? You need me to fix a broken in-game car?

"Trust me, it can be fixed!"

Seeing his old classmate genuinely getting angry, Guo Mo hurriedly pulled him to the computer and described the wonders of the "Speeding Frenzy" game.

Qiangzi was initially dismissive.

He was genuinely angry, feeling that Guo Mo was purely messing with him; how could he repair a car in a game? He was a car mechanic, not a programmer!

But after fiddling around for a bit, Qiangzi was suddenly surprised.

Hey...

Seems like he really could fix this car?

When Qiangzi, utilizing his knowledge, repaired the in-game car for Guo Mo, the two were left speechless.

"It actually can be fixed?!"

"It can be fixed!"

Guo Mo confidently said, "I wasn’t lying to you, right? I said this car needed you to fix it, I couldn’t do it myself."

"Indeed!"

"But for me..."

Qiangzi first nodded, then looked puzzled, "This is my first time repairing a car that doesn’t exist in real life."

The key is, it was actually fixed!

Isn’t that just too abstract?

As Qiangzi left, carrying the toolbox and with two hundred bucks for his hard work, he still felt a bit disoriented recalling what just happened.

Who is he, where is he?

Wasn’t he here for a home repair service? How did it suddenly turn into fixing a game car? And he really fixed it, can you believe that?

"Speeding Frenzy..."

After jotting down the game’s name, Qiangzi suddenly had a bold idea.

Are there many people with such needs?

If his repair shop could offer "Speeding Frenzy" car repair services, could his career have a second spring?

He felt there was potential!

Qiangzi was young too, knowing what game boosting was. It stood to reason that if rank-boosting had business, then what about his "car-repair" boosting?

Thinking about it, he took action.

Once back home, Qiangzi first got a better understanding of the "Speeding Frenzy" game, especially the "modification and repair" feature Guo Mo had mentioned.

The more he learned, the more excited he got.

According to feedback from netizens, the game’s repair and modification are too hardcore; many players lack car knowledge and find it quite difficult to use.

Start learning from scratch?

How long would that take? And it wouldn’t necessarily be successful! Instead of spending so much time learning, it’s better to send it to a NPC shop for modifications and repairs.

But game coins are hard-earned, single-player mode is alright, but online mode coins are even harder to come by, since the opponents in competitions are players themselves...

Moreover, the vehicles are so easily damaged, and repairs are frequent, so most players spend almost all their game coins on repairs.

Alright!

Qiangzi saw that this was his chance.

If he provided players a car repair boosting service, saving them a significant amount on repair costs and charging just a few bucks per session, surely players would be glad to hire him.

Additionally...

Boosting isn’t exactly reputable, and the game has an "insurance" mechanism, so people aren’t particularly afraid of repairs anyway.

So why not change the mindset, start a live stream teaching people how to repair cars? How to repair cars in "Speeding Frenzy"?

Earn a fan badge, and the streamer will point out vehicle issues for free and impart essential "Speeding Frenzy" car repair knowledge, freeing you entirely from the headache of car repairs.

The more Qiangzi thought about it, the more excited he became, so he quickly called Guo Mo to ask about the feasibility of this idea.

"Of course it’s feasible!"

"Whoa, I had no idea you were such a sharp thinker! Already found a way to make money?"

Guo Mo was greatly surprised, suggesting no need to start a new live stream, but for Qiangzi to come to his place tomorrow, and they would share one streaming room.

Guo Mo had a fan base, Qiangzi had car repair knowledge, and the two combining their efforts would be much better initially than Qiangzi starting from scratch.

Moreover, there’s an added benefit.

Qiangzi can take care of his repair shop during the day without needing to do high-intensity streaming every day, just two or three hours of streaming in the evening would suffice.

As for gift revenue shares?

The two would discuss it and decide together!

They would first see if the model worked; if it did, the streaming income would definitely have to include a share for Qiangzi.