Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1243: Chapter 1125: World’s First Stalled Progress_1 Chapter 1243: Chapter 1125: World’s First Stalled Progress_1 Dense crowds of humans jostled and rushed to the edge of the waterfall, then leapt down recklessly one after another.

Like dumplings being tossed into boiling water, they rained down from the sky and dove into the pool, blood spilling everywhere.

This frenzy, this entirely abnormal scene, initially even triggered several content restrictions on video platforms.

The uploaders had no choice but to annotate their recordings with large characters – [Virtual Scene, Not Real, Do Not Imitate]

Only then were they able to break through the content restriction.

Not only were there mass suicides of NPCs, but players also got to experience a plethora of suicide methods as well.

The feeling of being perfectly aware, yet suddenly not having control of one’s own body and helplessly watching as it seeks death, had scared numerous timid players.

Even those who could withstand the whole process without removing their blindfolds experienced seeing the shadow of the monster in the “Perception World” when they entered the monster’s active area.

White mist, resembling tentacles, brushed past them from close by, emanating slight sounds.

But if they tilted their heads up to look, they would only see the Void – the monster’s size had eclipsed the scope of the [Perception Vision].

Only being able to see parts of the body, but not the whole image, was undoubtedly a rather thrilling experience.

Especially when every now and then, a teammate next to them would get pulled away by the white misty tentacles wrapped around their legs, leaving behind screams that sent shivers down people’s spines.

The thrill was off the charts.

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The most baffling part was: until now, no one knows what exactly this monster looks like.

With eyes closed, they could only see a few tentacles, with eyes open, they couldn’t even see the tentacles – only the distorted air and landscape.

Many people were still trying, trying to piece together the form of this monster.

And the most widely accepted guess at the moment was – a giant invisible octopus swimming through the air!

After all, those were tentacles down there!

But as of now, no further evidence has been found.

Another piece of intel:

After completing the second chapter [Not to Be Stared At], the [Survival Mode] has unlocked a new mode and new map.

Players can now play as the monster, the “Angel of Death”, from “A Quiet Place”.

However, if one chooses to play as the monster, the ‘traitor’ role will disappear and both the hearing aid and shotgun can be randomly refreshed.

From this, it’s speculated that as the seven chapters are completed one by one, the gameplay of [Survival Mode] would become increasingly diverse, with ever-increasing fun and playability.

This is undoubtedly good news for Victoria.

If [Survival Mode] remained in the state it was in last night, she’d never want to enter that mode again for the rest of her life…

It was simply too absurd.

Being able to play as the monster has aroused some anticipation in her, however.

But before that, the remaining chapters need to be completed first.

So –

“A Quiet Place” – Launch!”

*

While players were eagerly playing the game over the weekend, Lincoln met Henry again.

And Henry brought him a definitive message – [Digital Life] project has officially been approved after a half month of evaluation and discussion.

Henry’s visit this time was to inquire whether Lincoln would like to personally meet with scholars at the end of their lifespan.

It’s not just the few who were on the brink of death, but also those who were critically ill, to ask about their intentions.

Yet, Lincoln declined the offer with a shake of his head.

Lincoln was just itching to use this revolutionary technology to transform the world.

He didn’t intend to use it to build connections or gain power for himself.

— Although, once this thingamajig gets going, it would naturally bring him vast networks and power.

Since he could acquire everything without lifting a finger, why should he bother?

Why put on an appearance of a sycophantic, petty person?

Moreover, he didn’t genuinely desire such things.

— He had detached himself from these lowly desires a long time ago.

Thus, Henry made a few phone calls, and the Special Action Team for the [Digital Life] project immediately set off.

They would individually converse with elderly scholars in hibernation and those critically ill.

Meanwhile, five hundred confidentiality staff left Xiajing City, rushing to various areas of Daxia, meeting with veterans over 90 years old, introducing them to the [Digital Life] plan and handing over the choice to them.

Of course, Lincoln wouldn’t just idly sit by either.

His first step was to have the Virtual City Building Department intensify the improvement of facilities for senior citizens.

Although the virtual world was continuously developing, the overall user base leaned more towards the younger generation—The landlord games did enrich the user age structure for a while, but compared to the exponentially expanding young user base, it was lacking a lot.

Consequently, compared to facilities for the young folks to eat, drink and have fun, facilities for the elderly were unavoidably much fewer.

The second step was to develop a DIY Hybrid Reality Renovation Device.

Transforming large locations into mixed reality could be a bit troublesome, but for residences, it’s a lot simpler.

Just prepare computation power, cameras, and signal amplification devices, and it’s basically usable.

At most, just include a more detailed instruction booklet.

Of course, these are just stopgaps.

If a large-scale mixed reality transformation is genuinely desired, it would be necessary to develop the tourism partnership project [Mixed Reality City] further.

However, there was no rush for this.

The current stage only requires around a thousand people and the existing resources are fully sufficient.

…

Lincoln talked to Henry about his prepared plans and what he intended to do.

Henry, in turn, discussed the conversations during the closed-door meetings that the expert groups had over the past half a month, where they examined astonishing technology— [Digital Life].

There were discussions about the technology itself, predictions on the impact the technology would have on society, the various contingency plans and strategies for problems were debated at length.

Mavis’s mind was somewhere else, her thoughts hardly on this.

Little Princess, on the other hand, was seated next to them, listening attentively.

Because she frequently ran over to keep Lincoln company, and Lincoln tended to speak whatever was on his mind, regardless of who was with him, Consequently, Camille’s security clearance had been rapidly escalating recently.

—Should Lincoln inadvertently disclose any confidential information, the well-trained Pengju would promptly raise his hand, signaling Lincoln to shut up.

He didn’t want to listen.

However, Camille was not so mindful.

She hardly ever interrupted Lincoln when he was speaking.

So, after signing a series of confidentiality agreements, when Henry spoke to Lincoln about official affairs, he didn’t avoid her anymore.

*

While Little Princess was listening anxiously to a conversation that could influence Daxia, perhaps even the future of humanity, many people were cursing the development team.

Because when they woke up, countless players were vexed by the third chapter of “A Quiet Place”—[Don’t Blink].

Everyone’s eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets, yet they were still clueless about what the moving stone carved angel was all about.

Even when stepping offline to use the restroom, they felt their eyes horribly dry, involuntarily blinking incessantly.

Additionally, the current world number one player in “A Quiet Place”—that is, the player who progressed the fastest, felt like cursing.

Because he encountered a completely unexpected situation:

He had hit a progress block.

The fifth chapter: [Death Voting], was a level that had prerequisite requirements!

It required the number of players worldwide who had completed the fourth chapter to exceed 100 before it could be unlocked.

And the current number of players who had completed it was:

(1/100)