All Novel Full Chapter 1381
Chapter 1381: Chapter 1243: Since there’s too much money to spend it all, why not give it a try?
Chapter 1381: Chapter 1243: Since there’s too much money to spend it all, why not give it a try?
Players rushed to the scene, furious and ready to explode.
Meanwhile, netizens waiting online for the trailer were a bit puzzled —
Where was the trailer?
Why hadn’t anyone posted it yet?
Wasn’t it supposed to be online a minute or two after the event?
It had been five minutes already!
Why was there still no news?
They waited another five minutes.
It wasn’t until ten minutes later that the trailer finally arrived, fashionably late.
Along with it came news of the space elevator being invaded by an unidentified force calling for emergency assistance.
In just ten minutes, the progress of [Return to the Stars] had plummeted from 40% to 38%!
The virtual world’s players were at the brink of a breakdown, especially those who had been grinding their way through the tasks with more dedication than they gave their jobs; their morale had completely shattered!
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Netizens were also shocked:
“Invasion?
Whose invasion?
Are there enemies in ‘Cyber Chang’an: 2077′?”
“No shit!
It’s obviously Cloud Dream’s invasion!
It’s probably Lincoln messing around again!
This guy hasn’t been human for more than a day or two!”
“But still, even troublemakers have to follow some basic rules, right?
There must be a reason for this invasion force.”
“I don’t know!
Right now, we can’t even put up a fight, we haven’t so much as caught a glimpse of them!”
“Enough talk!
Hurry up and reinforce!
If we wait any longer, our progress is gonna hit zero!”
“If our progress hits zero today, I swear I’m gonna send razor blades to their door!”
“Razor blades?
If our progress hits zero today, tomorrow I’ll hang myself right at the gate of Cloud Dream Headquarters!
I wanna die for them to see!!”
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The netizens were extremely emotional; even if one person played all day, they could only add a few hundred progress points.
Now with the invasion underway, the loss of just one percentage point meant a hundred million gone!
This drastic disparity was enough to split anyone open, not just the hardcore players, but also the casual ones!
However much they cursed, their bodies were honestly rushing into the virtual world to aid the effort — they just couldn’t stand by and watch, doing nothing.
Luckily, it was Saturday morning, so at least there were no obstacles to providing support, and there was no need to fret while stuck outside.
If this had happened on a workday, well, then brace for the players to block the doors with trucks!
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Lincoln, the person at the heart of this turmoil, was blissfully unaware of his role in it.
In his opinion, if players simply repeated tasks over and over, mindlessly pushing the progress forward, they would quickly get bored.
It’s common knowledge: When a passion becomes work, even the most beloved activity turns into a burden once it becomes habit.
With billions participating in this task, even if Cloud Dream prepared meticulously and integrated a smart task system, it couldn’t always keep things fresh for the players.
In fact, throughout the past week, players had categorized thousands of tasks, compiled records, and after analyzing factors like [difficulty], [time consumption], [progress], and [reward], they had reorganized these tasks using standards beyond just “color.”
This far exceeded the development team’s expectations.
Because the workload was tremendous, something that ordinary players or even player teams were thought to be incapable of doing.
But somehow, they did it —
Players formed an international organization of more than 500 members and even developed a small app that allowed players to help upload information about the tasks they’d completed.
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Even with so many people assisting, this was still a laborious and demanding mega project.
But the payoff was, it significantly improved the efficiency of players’ progression.
It also reduced the novelty for the players.
So Lincoln prepared a surprise for the players—
[Major Event].
When the overall progress of [Return to the Stars] reached a critical point, a large-scale [World Invasion] event would happen, disrupting the monotonous task rhythm of the players and giving them a jolting wake-up call!
As for who the enemy was?
The world of “Cyber Chang’an: 2077” only had two remaining mega-corporations, and Tianyuan Technology had already been restructured, putting all its resources and strength into rebuilding the Space Elevator.
Therefore, the one with both the motive and the power to wreak havoc was naturally the other mega-corporation in the Western Hemisphere—[General Energy].
Seeing its biggest rival repairing the strategic megastructure that was the Space Elevator, how could [General Energy] sit idly by?
The reasons for action were more than sufficient!
Of course, Lincoln didn’t intend to torment the players.
Things like reversing progress were just to add a bit of thrill and to motivate the players.
As long as they successfully resisted the invasion by [General Energy], it would be easy to make up for any losses.
As for if they failed to hold off…
Lincoln hadn’t even considered that possibility.
He had full trust in the abilities of the players!
This was also why he wasn’t in the virtual world at the moment, otherwise, seeing the players being brutally defeated and frantically rubbed into the ground by [General Energy]’s soldiers, he would definitely reconsider—whether the influx of casual players was affecting the overall combat power of the players…
Of course, he might just laugh heartily and enjoy the show.
It was hard to say.
Unfortunately, Lincoln was currently attending an academic exchange conference and couldn’t extricate himself.
He had grown somewhat weary of watching the players grind away in the virtual world in the past few days and, in a moment of quiet reflection, decided to go out and about.
Coincidentally, Henry had a bunch of academic bigwigs from all over the world who wanted to meet Lincoln, this incredible prodigy—not just in the fields of computer science and medical biology, but scholars from nearly every field were brimming with curiosity about Lincoln.
And Lincoln was similarly curious about these top-tier scholars, so he agreed to come.
However, he didn’t choose to attend sessions on computer science, artificial intelligence, brain neurology, or other technological fields that he was most familiar with and that best represented Cloud Dream.
Instead, he went to participate in the aerospace engineering exchange.
In the past, aerospace engineering was a highly secretive field in all countries, and the exchange of top tech talents simply did not happen.
It was only this time that Daxia was willing to spend big, bringing out the latest “virtual world training ground” and “rocket fuel system innovation” twin bombshells, thus breaking the iron curtain and opening the channel for aerospace talent exchange.
Although, so far, Lincoln’s only intersection with the aerospace field was having been to space once, and designing a few rockets for the Daxia Aerospace Academy, in his heart, he had always harbored a longing for space.
He had even thought about building the Spaceship from the virtual world!
To keep up with the thought processes of those aerospace talents—or at least to understand the questions they discussed—Lincoln had spent an entire day cramming a large amount of aerospace materials and technical information.
Upon learning that Lincoln had taken an interest in the aerospace field, the Aerospace Academy wasted no time in coveting their knowledge, rapidly organising a full set of information to send over, and they even thoughtfully said, “More is available on demand—whatever you need, we have it!”
Even that afternoon, an eager old academician showed up uninvited and, taking the Sky Craft Space Station Project as an example, laid out for Lincoln a complete set of aerospace research paths and thinking logic in a high-level overview.
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Thus, when Lincoln appeared at the aerospace engineering exchange the next day, he was already a qualified aerospace worker.
Though far from being an expert, keeping up with the conference rhythm and joining their discussions posed no difficulty.
After even just one day of attending the exchange, he once again had the idea to build and send the Spaceship from the virtual world into space.
After all, with more money than he could spend, why not give it a try?
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