Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Shuihua was engrossed in her dating game, keenly attempting to chat with her virtual boyfriend.

As long as she ignored his constant complaints and blocked him from going to the bathroom, the chat mode would be activated.

However, as they chatted, Shuihua began to notice something odd in her virtual boyfriend’s words and expressions, suspecting him of betrayal and possibly even cheating behind her back!

Following subtle clues, Shuihua began to suspect a flirtatious female colleague in the company.

So although she also went to the company, she did not follow the task’s prompts.

She ignored her nagging fat lady boss and started to talk to female colleagues to find evidence of her virtual boyfriend’s infidelity.

Meanwhile, Camille Victoria was engrossed in an office politics game.

She was working with her colleagues in the company, planning to embarrass her fat lady boss brutally at her birthday celebration in the evening through office politicking.

This was a quest line specifically designed by Little Chun with the female staff in mind.

Luckily, apart from these strange acquaintances known to Lincoln, the other players were much more normal.

They followed the plot according to the task prompts, and although they were occasionally distracted by the vastness and complexity of the virtual world, they were ultimately following the main storyline.

They were just a few steps behind the professional gamers in terms of progress.

Watching them display the behaviors befitting normal players, Lincoln sighed in relief, and finally allowed himself to drink the cola in front of him,

The 2.6 million Mirage devices went up for sale at the same time as the closed beta for “Assassins’ Alliance” opened.

The all-net purchasing event, held once a week, kicked off again.

Netizens, NetDragon, Wild Island, Flying Fox, Bluebird Alliance, scalpers, eSports clubs…

Countless people joined this purchasing feast.

Given the current demand for the Mirage, as long as you keep your eyes open and don’t get cheated, getting a console would guarantee you five to ten times profit on resale!

The Moutai liquor that guarantees double profit on resale has already maintained an army for several years, now that a minimum of five times gain was guaranteed, who wouldn’t want in?

Even the slowest netizen understood the magnitude of the opportunity.

Snapping up the Mirage console was no longer confined to the gaming circle.

Anyone able to invest some money and take a risk had but one word in mind “Buy! Buy damn it! Buying is making money!”

Therefore, even though the amount of consoles on sale this time was a huge

2.6 million units, it did not last as long in the rush as the last time.

Just over a minute later, the shopping rush had already ended!

Next was the battle between scalpers and various major company’s marketing departments.

Considering the striking similarities of their job contents at this time, this battle could also be dubbed…the battle between wild scalpers and farmed scalpers!

Warner’s R&D department was wiped out once again, ending up with nothing!

Like a furious bull, Warner banged his office desk violently.

If this were the virtual world, a swarm of “-l”s would be floating up from the desk at this very moment…

Unfortunately, this was the solid world of materialism. After venting his anger, he could only cover his swollen hand, grimacing in pain.

In the end, all he could do was to keep his hands clasped together, praying that the marketing department could pull a miracle and snatch a few more Mirage devices.

At this point, in the canteen of the R&D center.

Following Warner’s approval, people like the front desk receptionist, the storeroom gatekeeper, office cleaner, staff from the archives section,

Auntie-ladle from the canteen… all these staff gathered in the R&D center’s canteen, being guided by admin staff to snatch the device together.

An aunty in charge of kitchen sanitation and an uncle who guarded the storeroom were looking at their mobile phone screens showing “Payment successful, order has been recorded”, but they chose not to share the good news.

They locked their phones silently and integrated into their colleague’s conversations, voicing their complaints loudly: “I couldn’t get any! I had not even found the payment button yet and they had already closed on me!”

The colleagues also nodded in concurrence, ‘Yeah, they are indeed too hard to snag.”

The Auntie chatted with her coworkers while thinking: The company indeed said that whoever gets one will receive a prize money of 1,000 dollars, to be paid on the spot, and there will be other benefits.

But this is the Internet age, do they really think us ordinary folks wouldn’t go online?

1000 dollars? Are they trying to dismiss us like beggars?

If I sell it myself, wouldn’t it be more profitable to make 50,000-60,000 dollars? Do they think I’m keen on their 1,000 dollars?

As for other benefits?

Am I going to get promoted from cleaning the kitchen and wiping tables?

This is a large restaurant, seating nearly a thousand people in a densely packed space.

Also, since this is not an office area, the WiFi coverage is not comprehensive here.

There were inevitably many people who were knocked off the WiFi and were forced to use their own data to participate in the scramble.

This actually inadvertently helped them, as it bypassed Little Dream’s IP address blockage from NetDragon, and with quick reflexes and incredible luck, they ultimately managed to secure the purchase.

Although these people are employees of NetDragon, they are slightly different from NetDragon’s full-time staff. The office workers have never truly considered them as colleagues.

The simplest evidence: The employees’ small group chat did not invite any of the people from this restaurant.

Most of the people sitting here don’t have good qualifications, they don’t understand the principle of “One peck and one drink, determined by heaven”.

What they understand is “If you don’t take me seriously, don’t expect me to bare my soul to you.”

So in the end, no one stepped forward to report.

No one knew how many people in the audience actually managed to grab a console.

Fortunately, the battle strength of NetDragon’s Market Department is still online. Despite the intense competition, they managed to secure a full 12 Mirage devices in the end!

At this point, anyone who comes out to show off about securing the third batch of Mirage on the Internet must either have a strong vanity and no plans to sell, or they are preparing to attract more buyers for a better selling price.

All this made their work extremely challenging.

Securing 12 units was already the result of their best efforts.

Of course, Warner would not complain that they were not working hard. In fact, he was almost moved to tears of joy!

When he first boasted in the meeting room that he would achieve a technological breakthrough in two months, he never thought that just buying a console would require Herculean efforts!

It’s been a full month since that meeting, and he’s just about to get his hands on the actual console!

“Fortunately, I finally got it!” Warner felt that the hardest stage was finally over, and he had already seen the dawn’s early light!

Next, as long as they dismantle one Mirage, many problems will be solved naturally.

For the software issues, they have a professional network security team in their company, and they believe it should not be too difficult to crack.

As for the notion that network security experts don’t do hacker’s work? Don’t kid me, anyone who believes that is a fool.

Compared to software, the problems with the hardware are the real difficulty.

The key issue is the core microchip, which will be very difficult to decrypt.

Because its own reading and entering difficulties are much greater than software, and in order to prevent unauthorized access or copying of the chip’s internal program, most microchips have an encryption lock position or encryption byte to protect the internal program.

But Warner believes that there’s no chip that can’t be cracked!

As long as it is disassembled and taken out separately for decryption, no matter the cost in terms of manpower and resources, it is bound to succeed!

All in all, the odds of success are high!