All Novel Full Chapter 905
Chapter 905: Chapter 857: Rapidly Increasing Completion Rate!_1 Chapter 905: Chapter 857: Rapidly Increasing Completion Rate!_1 In the meeting room of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Lincoln Countermeasures Group, six members, five males and one female, looked at each other in disbelief.
“Lincoln might be building a mech,” was something they initially didn’t believe at all.
After all, they had the most intelligence.
When they first received the task, they had indeed put forth a lot of effort.
The amount of intelligence and analysis related to Lincoln had already filled up three whole filing cabinets.
Even after they had adopted a laid-back attitude, they still clocked in diligently every day to play games—California was close to Mexico, and they had official technical and equipment support, so their game experience was far superior to the average American player’s.
Combining the two, they could unpretentiously proclaim, “We are the group that understands Lincoln best in all of America!”
Based on this understanding, they initially had 80% confidence that the blueprint was not for a real mech.
Considering the extremely low cost-effectiveness of large-scale humanoid robots in warfare, coupled with global mainstream peace ideology, this confidence can even be raised to 90%.
However, Daxia TV’s subsequent modification of the video raised doubts.
Lincoln’s unconventional, cover-up-oriented, increasingly suspicious trailer further deepened their suspicions.
This led to an increase in the confidence rating of [Lincoln is really developing a large mecha] in their assessment reports, from an initial lack of 10%, to 25%.
This meant it was already one-quarter likely.
Which also meant that according to the workflow, they had to work with their superiors to develop a related contingency plan.
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This gave the five members of the six-person team a headache.
Team leader Barnes, already 41 years old, looked worried: “How about we drop it down a percentage point and write 24% in the report?”
The difference of a percentage point is the difference between whether or not they have additional work.
Another team member readily agreed, “I also think there were issues with the previous analysis.
There’s no doubt that developing a large mecha requires a sufficiently large venue.
Lincoln can’t be developing it in the Second Ring of Xiajing City, right?
I think 20% is a reasonable figure.”
The only woman in the group, while pondering what to eat for lunch, nodded expressionlessly, “Agreed.”
However, the youngest and most stubborn Daniel disagreed, “No way!
I object!”
“25% is 25%, how can it simply be altered?”
This remark made others in the group frown subconsciously.
The oldest member of the group, with the longest tenure, shook his head, “There’s too little intelligence and the inference lacks rigor.
I don’t think it’s suitable to make a mountain out of a molehill.”
“If we let those above make a misjudgment based on our report and start to initiate research on large mechas, then when they find out all Lincoln did was make a game, we not only have to take responsibility, but also waste a large amount of resources.
That’s improper.”
He didn’t specifically say to lower the confidence rating, but his opinion undoubtedly suggested as much, albeit given a more valid excuse.
Group leader Barnes opportunistically suggested, “First drop it down.
After that, we’ll keep a close eye on things.
If necessary, we’ll report to the authorities immediately.
How’s that?”
Daniel was still somewhat hesitant, but faced with the disgruntled expressions of his colleagues, he finally reluctantly agreed.
*
At the same time, the employees in the Cloud Dream office chat group were also taken aback.
Only a minute after the release of the trailer, Lincoln’s phone started beeping incessantly.
When he opened it, it was full of the employees’ excited questions —
“Boss, what on earth are you up to??”
“You’ve been making games behind our backs again!”
“Wasn’t the miracle of developing a game in one week enough?
You want to break this record too?
Do you have to be this competitive?”
— As per the trailer’s introduction, the so-called new game mode was clearly a new game!
And it looked like a really fun new game!
This made them once again experience the unevenness of the world.
Besides expressing shock, a lot of employees voluntarily applied to work overtime:
“Boss, do you need our help?”
“I’m applying for remote overtime!
Give me a chance, boss!”
“I feel so ashamed…
While I’m on holiday, the boss is still busy.
If this continues, it feels like I’ll be obsolete in Cloud Dream…”
…
The employees were very excited.
But alas, Lincoln declined them all:
“You have holidays and you don’t take a break, but want to work overtime instead?
You’re kidding me.
Do you know how precious holidays are?”
“Do you know how painful it is to be denied holidays and to be forced to take days off?”
Really, they don’t understand the value of a holiday at all!
Outside of the office group, in many small groups, employees are gossiping enthusiastically:
“For summer?
I remember, there’s a veteran super intern in our company, also called Victoria, right?”
“The real-life version of ‘The Bossy CEO Falls In Love With Me’?”
“Well, I’m hooked!”
“Could it be a coincidence?
Victoria — I have nothing against her, I quite like her, but honestly, she’s just ordinarily pretty, isn’t she?
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Could the boss really be into her?”
“Why guess?
Just ask!
We share some group chats, wait for my good news!”
…
The lively atmosphere continued until very late.
*
The next morning, Princess’s good morning text didn’t get a response.
She pursed her lips, feeling a bit unhappy.
Not because Lincoln didn’t reply to her text right away, but because she realized that Lincoln might have stayed up late working on the game to send her a gift, causing him not to wake up yet.
This made her a bit worried.
But in fact, Lincoln didn’t stay up late to work on the game.
He just stayed up to finish the trailer.
–Strictly speaking, it was a “teaser scam”, many parts of it hadn’t been finished and needed to be completed today.
Waking up late was simply because he spent too much time lurking and watching the praises in the group chat and on the internet.
After getting up, he first replied to Camille Victoria’s greeting text, then washed up, ate the lunch that Yue Pengju brought, and then started to implement all the content in the trailer.
But he had just started work when Mavis suddenly patted his arm and said: “Master, Princess is coming!”
“Huh?” Lincoln was a bit surprised, “Shouldn’t she be busy?”
These days around New Year, theoretically, is one of the busiest times of the year for Camille Victoria, and she said yesterday that she had to attend several places today.
When Lincoln opened the door, he found that Camille Victoria was still dressed up, wearing Jordan’s coat from outside, obviously she just came from a formal occasion.
“What’s wrong, in such a hurry?” Lincoln quickly pulled her into the warm room.
“I want to help!
I don’t want you to work too hard.”
Seeing the earnest expression on Little Princess, Lincoln didn’t refuse: “Okay, but before that, you need to drink some hot soup to warm up.”
…
…
Half an hour later, Lincoln took Camille Victoria into the virtual world again, and the three of them started their work.
And the Princess indeed provided a lot of help – under her meticulous crafting, the animals became cuter.
This was very important.
Because in “Animal Party”, the players were no longer wearing costumes like in [Candy Track], but truly “became animals”, which was one of the core fun elements of the game.
So, in this game, “cuteness” is the primary productive force!
As for Lincoln himself, he put all his energy into the most time-consuming sensory data.
But this time, the goal was not “how to make it more realistic”, but “just the right kind of unreal”.
The touch of cartoon-style animals, of course, cannot be exactly the same as the touch of real animals–
If it’s a furry animal, like an orange cat, corgi, panda and so on, it must feel fluffier, softer and warmer than the real one.
For those without fur, like dinosaurs, crocodiles, seals, etc., they must be squishy cute, not as rough and hard as real skin.
The fine-tuning of this part took the most time.
Luckily, players probably wouldn’t accept the feeling of “being covered in fur”, which saved Lincoln the effort of writing corresponding virtual senses – it would have been a huge hassle to do so.
Luckily, it wasn’t necessary to do that, which saved a lot of time.
Except for these, the remaining scenes, items, and such, with Mavis, the “wishing machine”, everything else was not a problem.
The three people each took on their own roles and cooperated with each other, the completion of the game increased at a visible speed…
Before it got dark, they had reached a playable level.