Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1377: Chapter 1239: Silent Thunder Chapter 1377: Chapter 1239: Silent Thunder Clearly, the “Wall of Life” trailer with 10% progress mainly targeted game players.

The “Paradise: A Fantasy Journey” trailer at 20% progress, however, was aimed at a larger and more diverse group of casual users.

They wanted to draw all gamers, whether hardcore or casual, into the “Return to the Stars” world mission.

Without discriminating between serious and casual, they aimed to capture everyone in one fell swoop; their wolfish ambition was plain for all to see.

But players were completely oblivious to Lincoln’s “schemes,” each one only concerned with their excitement.

The moment the trailer ended, they didn’t even stop to discuss it but immediately checked their recording systems.

Once sure they had captured it, they didn’t think twice before hitting [play] to rewatch and look for details they missed the first time.

And Cloud Dream clearly didn’t disappoint players in this regard.

The scenes that flashed by quickly in the lens, when slowed down by players, or even paused, immediately revealed numerous interesting details—

In the exhibition hall, there was an Iron-Blooded Warrior tourist without armor curiously looking at a mural along with a miniaturized version of an Iron-Blooded Warrior.

The mural depicted a stern-faced hero clad in armor, holding a riding spear, and launching an attack towards the sky against an endless blaze of light.

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Traits such as determination, courage, and strength were portrayed vividly.

This was Stanley’s commemorative monument for messing up in “Terraria”—

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In a restaurant, there was an octopus chef whose eight tentacles wielded eight different types of kitchen utensils fluttering through the air, rapidly preparing various foods for tourists.

By the hot spring pool, several seals were lying on their backs on pebbles, slapping their stomachs with a splashing sound.

A robot monk that once appeared in the Infinite Benevolence World Buddha Temple was leisurely wrapped in a bath towel, soaking in the hot springs while massaging a seal’s belly.

In the movie theater, aliens of strange shapes and vastly different sizes were nestled in lazy sofas, enjoying a movie projected in mid-air.

In the corner of the screen, there was even a hidden blue-skinned Na’vi passionately kissing a slime that looked like a frosted sugar treat.

This was followed by the aquarium, alien life shows, blue-skinned alien diva concerts… and so on.

Every single scene contained amusing details.

And the most noticeable feature of the entire trailer was—

The quirky alien NPCs looked nothing like the ferocious aliens that had previously appeared in the virtual world!

Each one of them had a benevolent appearance, and they clearly seemed polite and easy to talk to.

This fully proved that “Paradise: A Fantasy Journey” was a place where all universal life forms peacefully coexisted and shared joyful times.

So, unsurprisingly, this clip instantly ignited the passion of nearly all players, with an impact even greater than the “Wall of Life”!

—After all, this time there was a specific video!

And the number of casual users has always been much greater than that of hardcore users!

Of course, it was not until the next morning that the “Paradise: A Fantasy Journey” trailer truly exploded and became a sensation across the internet.

Early in the morning, as Stanley got up to prepare for a cross-city full armor combat exchange, he became so excited when he saw the “Breaking the Sky Light” mural that he instantly jumped up from his chair, even letting out a shout.

In the training field, competitors getting accustomed to the area, referees with short sticks, and the audience gradually entering the venue…turned their astonished gazes towards him when they suddenly heard a simian cry echoing through the hall.

Stanley clenched his fists and hurriedly sat down in embarrassment.

Then he hastily shared the media’s recorded and released trailer to the game group chat to wake up the sluggards there.

And then… he welcomed the praise!

Netizens getting up for work or school also gradually saw the trailer—not a difficult feat since the video had already gone viral.

Ordinary players remembered to record it, so how could the game media and influencers who live off this stuff neglect to do so?

They were the first to record and upload it at the first opportunity.

The ones who worked especially hard stayed up all night to rush out content, and by now, they had already released their analytical videos!

They circled each detail and Easter egg to explain them to the netizens.

The people who put in the effort received their due rewards, reaping a massive wave of traffic.

Excitement quickly fermented!

Many young parents who usually kept quiet, and even bought Mirage just for the convenience of playing with their children, finally joined the discussion—

“We’ve almost had our fill of the amusement park and the [Jurassic Park] on Dinosaur Island in Paradise.

Now there’s finally going to be a major update!”

“Space amusement park!

Multiracial amusement park!

Zero-gravity amusement park!

Cloud Dream is awesome!”

“I knew [Space City] was missing something, a theme park!

When is Paradise going to start exploring new markets?”

“It’s [Return to the Stars Day] again!

Is everything really crammed into this one day?”

“I see now!

The remaining 30%, 40%, 50%…

all the way to 100%, all will be releasing trailers!

When the time comes, Cloud Dream might just release 10 new games in one breath!”

“Impossible to play them all!

Absolutely impossible!”

…

But players were insincere.

One second they say there are too many games to play, the next second they start planning to game hard, wanting to play the new games sooner.

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On the other side, Peter, who woke up early, looked at the players’ posts and sighed with relief.

The boss hadn’t lied to him; the players weren’t fixated on [Wall of Life] anymore.

But the pressure didn’t disappear; it just shifted.

The project team leader for Paradise faced a wild surge of players demanding updates as soon as he woke up the next day.

Unlike [Wall of Life], an “untraceable product,” Paradise has been a long-term project in operation for nearly a year, with frequent interactions with the players.

So, when the players began to eagerly demand updates and interacted like crazy, they faced far more pressure than [Wall of Life].

However, they were an experienced team, not to the point of bothering the boss over this.

—Boss Lin didn’t have the mood to listen to these things anyway.

As the workday arrived, the wild pace of world missions slowed down significantly—not even reaching half of what was achieved on rest days.

Even though this had been anticipated, after seeing the previous speed, it was hard not to feel a little let down.

Fortunately, the efficiency in decrypting the “big guy” was still at an acceptable decline.

This was because [Virtual Office], a completely new way of working, was quickly becoming a global trend, with numerous small and medium-sized companies transforming to [Virtual Office] every day.

Therefore, hundreds of millions of users, although they had no time to do world missions or build space elevators, were still working in the virtual world.

And as long as people were in the virtual world, they could contribute to the decryption work.

This was also a crucial basis for Mavis’s prediction that “decryption” would be completed before the “world missions.”

“So…

everything is within the plan!”

Lincoln quickly adjusted his mindset.

…

Twenty minutes later, after Lincoln, Camille Victoria, and Mavis had finished breakfast, Henry arrived on the dot with the weekly progress reports for the hibernation and digital life projects, knocking solemnly on his door.

Although Lincoln hadn’t personally been involved in the advancement of the two projects, no one would overlook his opinions.

All important matters would certainly be brought to his attention, and Henry would visit at fixed times to understand his attitude and opinions through face-to-face discussions.

If his stance remained the same this time, the pilot for the hibernation cabins would be rolled out across the provinces nationwide.

The digital life project would also take the most critical step, expanding into more industries.

A silent thunderbolt was to resound throughout the land today!

Completely changing the fate of a generation—and countless generations to follow.