Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1052: Chapter 969: Playing with Reality!_1 Chapter 1052: Chapter 969: Playing with Reality!_1 Lincoln called Camille Victoria and briefed her about his plan.

After all, they presented the planet as a pair, so it was necessary to give her a heads up.

And Little Princess was fully supportive of his idea.

So, on this weekend morning, Lincoln’s Spiritual Rhinoceros account updated once again—

“We’re a bit taken aback by everyone’s enthusiasm.

Since you’re all so enthusiastic, I can’t be stingy.

Therefore, I’m officially announcing an additional reward—

[Eight Challenges], under the premise that the original rewards remain unchanged, the first person to complete each challenge will receive a special achievement and a pure gold trophy made of gold bricks!

— This isn’t the “gold brick” that’s a few tens of millimeters long and wide that you see on the market, but a solid gold brick weighing a net 25 kilograms.

Beyond the first-place finishers, the top 10 completers of each challenge can receive a 10-kilogram pure gold commemorative trophy.

The top 100 finishers, a 1-kilogram pure gold medallion.

The top 1000 finishers, a 500-gram pure gold medallion.

However, these trophies and medallions are just additions to the original rewards, a small token of remembrance.

To the brave warriors heading to Pandora to Challenge, I still suggest you think more about your [Wish].

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Lastly, welcome to Pandora!”

Lincoln thought of this idea on the fly, so as for the pure gold trophies and medallions, not to mention the physical items, the design drafts aren’t even drawn up yet.

So, when it came to providing images, he simply and crudely posted stacks of gold bricks and gold bars.

Eight 25-kilogram gold bricks, eighty 10-kilogram gold bars, eight hundred 1-kilogram gold bars, and a thousand 500-gram gold bars.

They were not stacked neatly but were all shoved onto the ground, covering the floor with a clatter.

The whole picture was shimmering with gold.

— This photo was taken by Lincoln and Xiaomeng in the virtual world, as he naturally didn’t hoard gold in reality and it was even more impossible to casually fork out 5.8 tons of gold.

That’s not a small number.

According to the market price, it’s worth close to 2 billion Daxia dollars!

Yet in Lincoln’s words, these were just “additional commemorative rewards”.

Such exorbitance unsurprisingly incited another internet sensation.

Compared to the previously uncertain [cash] and [wishes], the tangible pure gold rewards that Lincoln now offered were much easier to visualize!

“Oh my God!

2 billion in gold, and it’s just a ‘small token of remembrance!”

“My previous wish was simply ‘not to go to work,’ I need to think bigger!”

“Forget the virtual wife!

I wish for 100 real wives!”

“Get me a building!

I’ll be a landlady for the rest of my life!”

“I’m getting a console now!

It’s just two months’ salary, I’ll bet on it!”

“Don’t just talk about the rewards, what are the challenge contents?!”

“Can we skip the trophy and just get the cash?”

“Are you stupid?

Isn’t the trophy worth more than the gold brick?”

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From early morning, the internet was already in full swing.

And it was not just the internet in Daxia, but the global internet.

Because this time, Lincoln issued a bilingual post—he unusually and considerately added English.

This allowed his “additional rewards announcement” to spread across the foreign internet immediately, without any delay or barrier, triggering a violent response.

Not only were they discussing these rewards, they were also guessing: just how much is Lincoln worth?

Everyone knew he was rich—no, he was super-rich.

And whether it was the professional financial media or ordinary internet spectators, they all anticipated that he could become the future world’s richest man.

After all, he held the virtual world in his hands, possessed revolutionary technology, and demonstrated amazing innovative scientific research and ability to commercialize.

— The global surge of Cloud Dream and Journey Prosthetics alone had let people see this trend.

But the problem was: nobody knew exactly how rich he was.

Cloud Dream wasn’t listed, Journey Prosthetics wasn’t listed, and his personal financial situation was even less likely to be made public.

So Lincoln’s wealth had always been a mystery.

Not until now, when he started to splash the cash, did people couldn’t help but speculate: if stocks weren’t included, calculating only in cash, could he already be the richest man?

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No one knew.

Lincoln himself didn’t know either.

He had long stopped caring about how much money he had; Mavis was always the one managing his account, and he only ever spent it.

The only restriction he had before was not letting Mavis use his money for stock trading.

However, out of fun, he had set up a separate securities account for Mavis and deposited 5 million as startup capital for her to play with.

After the New Year, he remembered about this and checked the account, and was shocked to find out that the value of the securities in the account had skyrocketed to over 70 million!

And this was just Mavis buying stocks casually while eating melon seeds.

Lincoln looked at the transaction records and found that in the early stages, it was high-frequency trading, with ups and downs, and the 5 million had dropped to just over 2 million at one point.

But at some point, her winning rate never fell below 60%.

—Forgive Lincoln for using the term “winning rate,” since in his humble opinion, there’s little difference between “stock trading” and “gambling.”

From then on, the money in Mavis’s account started to fluctuate and rise, snowballing.

But it seemed that she got a bit bored, and after setting up a set of automatic trading strategies, she didn’t seem to be interested in paying too much attention.

However, the snowball kept rolling even with Mavis only occasionally intervening.

After this, Lincoln no longer restricted Mavis from using his money for stock trading.

Of course, he still reminded her not to make the stakes too high, to avoid being scammed through underhand means—after all, Mavis was trading on the global securities market.

Now, he really didn’t know how much money he had.

But one thing he was sure of: he had enough money for this lifetime, and it would only keep increasing.

Of course, even so, he wouldn’t just throw money around blindly.

It seemed as though he carelessly spent nearly 2 billion with a single post, but in reality, this was more like a gimmick.

—Because he truly didn’t think that much money could be spent.

Only a very small number of people would be able to complete the challenges.

Let’s take an example:

One of the challenges really is to climb to the top of the [Tree of Life] and then parachute down.

Doesn’t sound too hard, right?

But what if the tree was super-sized by Lincoln, with the top reaching over 3000 meters?

And what if the tree is seen as the holy mother by the natives of the Pandora Planet—the Na’vi, and has six different tribes living under it, ready to fight and sacrifice for the protection of the tree at any time?

And what if, above 200 meters on the tree, there are various birds of prey that will randomly attack climbers?

Lincoln had great faith in the potential of the players and believed that someone could successfully complete this challenge.

But he found it hard to believe there would be more than 10 people who could do this.

Here’s another example:

The classic [Phantom Rider] achievement was also replicated by Lincoln.

If someone can successfully tame the King of the Sky, the ultimate phantom—Phantom Dragon, they could complete one of the challenges.

Seems not too difficult, right?

You couldn’t be more wrong!

In the movie, the protagonist could succeed not only because of the protagonist halo, but the most important point is: he had the body of an [Avatar], and could use the neural bundles growing from his hair to connect with the neural network of the Yikaran Flying Dragon, and fly in the sky with the Phantom Dragon and somehow jump onto the back of the Phantom Dragon to establish a neural connection.

FInally, he became the one-of-a-kind Phantom Rider.

But now, the players are genuinely humans!

Neural bundles growing from the hair?

Humans don’t evolve in such a bizarre direction!

This means the storyline from the movie is not possible to recreate, players can only rely on their genuine skills and abilities, and play for real!

Lincoln couldn’t wait until the weekend, so he called Zhou Jingzheng, telling him to ramp up production capacity for the following period.

Then he contacted Jerome, telling him to accept all orders, no matter how many come in.

For a while, there will be a continuous flow of new users into the virtual world, into Pandora.

Until the majority of the players recognize the difficulty of these challenges and give up, it will be a golden age for Cloud Dream to expand.

Whether they could reach 650 million users, it all depends on this surge!