Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1102: Chapter 1012: The Situation Seems to be Getting a Bit Out of Control…_1 Chapter 1102: Chapter 1012: The Situation Seems to be Getting a Bit Out of Control…_1 Lincoln looked satisfied, noticing a subtle change in the interlocking gaze between Randall and Fred.

However, both were well aware of Lincoln’s tricks.

They knew he was full of mischief and just wanted a show.

So, they decided not to put on a show for him.

They told Lincoln they needed to prepare for the release of “Dark Soul”, and both promptly vanished from his sight.

They completely logged out of the virtual world and scurried out of Lincoln’s sight to negotiate the difficult agreement.

As for Lincoln, after having a good laugh, he went to the victim’s wife, Little Chun, and began his regular work-day.

Normally, he should have gone to Group 2 of “Pacific Rim”, which is the development team for “A Quiet Place”.

Because Little Chun’s team was still working on the DLC for “Pokémon: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons”.

Creating monster designs, 3D rendering, designing behaviors, beloved actions, etc.

for the little monsters were tasks that required a lot of time, and it’s hard to speed up these procedures.

Although Lincoln could only work a few times faster in technical roles, his ability to aid in creative tasks wouldn’t see much of a boost.

After all, when it comes to “coding,” he could outperform ten people single-handedly.

But when it comes to “creating”…

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No matter how fast he is, he’s still just one person.

Mavis could provide hundreds of options in a blink, but the process of filtering and refining was no less time-consuming than starting from scratch.

And in the case where everyone already had a highly intelligent AI assistant, it seemed unnecessary for him to participate.

At this time, it was the most productive choice for Lincoln to go to the “Silent Land” project team.

But today, Lincoln just wanted to slack off here, occasionally imagining Randall coming to find Little Chun and admitting to his wife that he was going to wear a skirt…

Lincoln, Mavis, and Camille Victoria, under the guise of work started their slack off time.

But whether Randall predicted Lincoln’s malicious intentions or not, he unusually didn’t come to find Little Chun before the end of the workday.

This left Lincoln a bit disappointed.

Camille gave a wry smile and slapped Lincoln on the shoulder, then led him away.

*

Before shutting down for the day, the “Chang’an” project team, in accordance with the boss’s request, officially announced the release of “Dark Soul”.

“Dear Players,

Hello!

We are very pleased to bring you some good news:

The third chapter of “Chang’an” – “Dark Soul” has successfully concluded its one-week closed beta testing yesterday.

The game has been unanimously accepted by over 95% of closed beta test players.

Therefore, we are honored to announce to all-

“Chang’an: Dark Soul” will officially meet you all on April 1!

The demon fire has descended, the divine capital fallen.

Tumultuous times, upon us!

Eradicate evil begins at the edge, restrain the chaotic wave upon its collapse!

Everything lies in-

“Dark Soul”!

——

Not wanting any backlash, both Randall and Fred wanted to play it safe and initially tried to phrase it as “The game has been unanimously consented by the series’ chief designer and closed beta testers”.

Thus, when players get torn apart by the BOSS, they may lash out towards Lincoln and the closed beta test players instead of the innocent development team.

After all, the dev team really wanted to lower the difficulty!

But fearing Lincoln’s retaliation, they didn’t dare to shift the blame onto him in the end.

However, the closed beta test players certainly won’t be able to dodge this bullet!

Carry it well cleary!

…

…

Regardless of the complex mental process of the development team, the players who saw the announcement immediately began celebrating!

They had all been anxious waiting for Cloud Dream to announce the release date, they felt like ants were crawling all over their bodies and even started to worry that the delay in the announcement was due to some difficulties that the development team encountered.

Now that the release date had been announced, all worries could be thoroughly put to rest.

They just needed to wait and play when the time comes!

Of course, there were also some unsatisfied responses mainly because the release date was a bit unconventional:

“Why is it on April 1st??

Don’t you guys realize it’s a Tuesday?”

“Ridiculous!

Now, I have to take another day off!”

“Damn it, tomorrow, I’m going to receive a bunch of absurd leave forms again!”

“April 1st??

Why do I smell something fishy??”

“Charge!

How dare you hit my little sister?

Wait and see!

If I don’t kill you 100 times, I can’t vent my hatred!”

“Shirley!

Don’t be scared, your brother is coming to save you!”

…

April 1st, the release date, indeed touched the sensitive nerves of a few players.

Yet these doubting voices were momentarily drowned in the ocean of cheerfulness from the players.

Contrary to the ordinary players who knew nothing about “Dark Soul” and were celebrating its imminent release, the 3000 closed beta test players were gleefully looking forward to the day when tens of millions of players would step into the pit and their wails would fill the internet.

Only Super Tomato was conscious of the crisis-

Once players are abused badly, and they turn back to look at this announcement, those 3000 closed beta players were definitely to blame!

Under normal circumstances, players wouldn’t know who those 3000 people were, and could only vent their frustration into the void, spraying a few words to get it over with.

But now…everyone knew that he and Yi had participated in the beta!

Isn’t this like a ready-made target?!

“Something big is about to happen…”

Super Tomato was under great pressure.

Yet Yi never thought about this-

All he had in mind was that after everyone had been abused, he would live-stream a “No-Damage Speed Kill of Fred,” educating the beginners in his live stream!

*

The next day, Lincoln actually came to work early again.

Moreover, he arrived a full hour early and directly sat in the reception area right across from the main gate!

The purpose of his dedication was to prevent Randall and Fred from coming in an hour early and hiding in their offices, not coming out during lunch, and dragging off until everyone else had left work…

Then wouldn’t this bet have failed?!

So he just came to blockade them!

At first, only Lincoln and Xiaomeng were waiting-Cheryl Victoria didn’t want to appear rude and therefore didn’t follow.

After a while, Cheryl who somehow got the news, ran over without a word, sat on the side of Lincoln, even brought a camera.

Lincoln, seeing this from the corner of his eye, confiscated her camera without a word.

Cheryl looked at Lincoln “?”

“No filming.” Lincoln stated succinctly.

It’s fine to joke around internally and join in the fun, but it would be a bit too much to spread it outside.

Cheryl was a bit disappointed: “I didn’t plan to release it, just to commemorate it…”

But Lincoln was very firm: “Excuses failed.”

“…” Cheryl was speechless.

Then, under her speechless gaze, another person came over and sat down next to her.

That was Vincent.

Fred’s love interest.

“???” Cheryl was full of question marks.

Who was so fierce?

Even she, a fun-loving person who loved to watch drama, didn’t have the heart to tell Vincent about this!

Could it be…

She looked at Lincoln in terror.

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‘Boss, isn’t this too cruel??’

But Lincoln, sitting next to him, was now also wide-eyed, completely shocked!

‘Did you tell her?’

Lincoln asked Cheryl with his eyes.

The two looked at each other, mutually dismissing the suspicion.

Lincoln then looked at Xiaomeng with a little uncertainty.

Xiaomeng shook her head repeatedly, her pink hair flying about, “No, Xiaomeng wouldn’t do that!”

Now both of them were confused.

Cheryl could only ask Vincent with a hardened face:

“Vin…Vincent, who are you…waiting for?”

Unexpectedly, Vincent was also a little confused: “I don’t know, I received an anonymous email yesterday telling me to come to the company’s entrance early, saying someone wanted to see me about something important.”

Lincoln and Cheryl looked at each other again, both a little puzzled.

Just as they were contemplating whether they should trick Vincent into leaving, Quentina also arrived.

Immediately, Vincent waved her arm to greet Quentina: “Sister Qiao, over here!”

As she called out, she also explained to Cheryl: “I don’t know who is looking for me, I’m a bit worried it’s not good news, so I asked Sister Qiao to accompany me.”

Quentina walked over briskly, greeted Lincoln, Xiaomeng, and Cheryl, then sat down next to Vincent, waiting with her.

Seeing more and more people sitting with him, Lincoln couldn’t help but blink.

He felt the situation seemed a bit out of control…