Chapter 224: Chapter 222: Players Enjoying Themselves
Translator: 549690339
Even with Lincoln’s participation in the “Assassins’ Alliance” group, designing a dedicated event map, the time remains tight.
They work full steam ahead the next few days.
Lincoln has to postpone his original plans to visit nightclubs and concerts.
Having worked a whole day, he is too tired to fool around at nightclubs…
As for the concert, it’s a bit awkward: three concerts are scheduled in Xiajing City in the next two months, but the tickets for the inner venue have been sold out.
Now, he can’t buy tickets even if he wants to.
The situation is at a deadlock, and his choices are: either scalped tickets at high prices or directly contacting the agency of the celebrity who will hold the concert.
Or else, openly buying a ticket on Spiritual Rhinoceros at a high price.
However, Lincoln doesn’t want to do that; he’s not a crazy fan of any celebrity, and he’s unwilling to label himself as one.
He prefers the second option, planning to discuss cooperation with a strong celebrity management company that holds concerts after Jerome finishes with his live streaming event.
While being busy in Cloud Dream, players aren’t idle either.
Players of “Light Encounter” are still exploring maps and searching for light wings during their honeymoon period.
Everyone is trying their best to increase their wing count, exchanging various appearance options and magic abilities.
Only a small group of hardcore players has started attempting to speedrun the game.
Players of the “Assassins’ Alliance” are different; they are always coming up with new activities.
Since Yi’s group “What’s in the bathroom” successfully broke into the bathroom and witnessed the Holy Light, it was silent for a few days.
But then, they found a new interest, and the group name changed to “The First Beauty Pageant of Metropolis”.
The group members wandered around Metropolis, looking for beautiful female NPCs, took pictures and shared them in the group to appreciate and determine the most beautiful passerby in Metropolis.
But the progress hasn’t been smooth.
Firstly, it’s hard to synchronize everyone’s aesthetic preferences, and there are so many NPCs in Metropolis that choosing can be overwhelming.
Some people even try every means to find good angles and environments for better photo effects.
Creating a rainbow backdrop by using sunlight and a fire hydrant is just one of the milder attempts.
Many people act like perverts, closely stalking attractive NPCs, learning their routes and observing where their houses are, trying to take a perfect picture.
It is common to see people lying in the middle of the road to take photos.
Some members camp daily at the beach and public swimming pools, taking pictures of women in swimsuits, claiming to “send benefits to fellow members”.
One even climbed up to the 8th floor with bare hands, taking a picture of a woman’s lazy moment at sunrise through her window.
The turning point comes with a unique picture: a man wearing only swim trunks dances on the beach, with a perky bottom, large chest, fair skin, and eight-pack abs.
His mouth curls into an enchanting smile, and his eyes gleam with confidence.
The group remains silent for a moment, then members exclaim, “What a sight!”
“What the heck!”
“Posted in the wrong group, right?”
“For such matters, I just want to ask – where is your conscience? Where is your morality? Where is this address? And where is the video?”
“Give us the coordinates!”
“You are not right!”
Things get weirder from then on.
Pictures of beautiful women are still being posted, but more and more strange photos have also appeared.
First, scattered photos of NPCs with sligh tly handsome appearances appeared, and then pictures of various male-male CP NPCs began to emerge.
—Many female players also want to rush into the bathroom to see, this is known to group friends, but they always thought that there are only a few female players in the group.
After all, the group chat has many perverts.
But now it seems that there are not too few female group friends!
Later, the group even developed to include photographs of cars, cats, and landscapes, almost turning it into a photography enthusiasts group.
Not only photography but many hobbies in reality have also gradually extended into the game world.
Fishing is a given, ever since Lincoln livestreamed fishing, the activity has become more and more popular among players, moving from a niche to mainstream pastime.
What’s strange is that there are people who actually enjoy singing, dancing, and playing basketball in the virtual world!
There are blacksmiths, parkour runners, cyclists, motorbike racers, urban road racers, and more.
With tens of millions of players, the size of this community is like a small society, with people of all kinds present.
As a result, almost all hobbies can find related communities in the gaming community, where like-minded individuals can come together.
Even if “Assassin’s Alliance” never updates, players can still find their own enjoyment and extend the game’s life for several years.
Not to mention Cloud Dream continually updates branches and daily content, as well as competitions that players are eagerly awaiting.
Core players never slack in improving their combat power.
Outside the game, NetDragon’s Marketing Department Director, Wesley, has already quietly started his actions.
He didn’t rush to reveal his goals but first invited the owners of two unmanned factories he had previously cooperated with to dine together, establish relationships, and get a feel for the situation.
At the end of the dinner, he hinted at NetDragon’s intentions to find external cooperation factories, but only touched the surface of the topic.
Later, as expected, the owners of both factories took the initiative to contact him and invited him for dinner in return.
At the dinner table, they tried to get more information, as they wondered why NetDragon, which already has its own factories, suddenly wants to find external partners?
They couldn’t deny their interest since they still remembered that when making VR equipment, the profits were much higher than making the Mirage Console now.
However, Wesley did not answer; after several drinks, he changed the subject to ask about their current situation, especially the state of Mirage Console production, the costs, and the profitability.
One factory owner was vigilant and very cautious, not leaking any information.
Although the other factory owner hesitated a bit, he still mentioned a few things he considered unimportant.
Thus, Wesley locked onto this target and began to focus on the owner of the second factory.
The next invitation had a completely different level of hospitality, with dining, drinking, bathing, and massages all covered, and this unmanned factory owner was treated thoroughly.
By the time he went home, his bag was filled with signed contracts.
And his task was not complicated: only to cause a breakdown in one of the Mirage Console assembly lines in the factory, and then immediately replace it with a new one.
After all, the new contract terms were very generous, plus the unexpected large check found in the bag when he returned home; the loss of a single production line was really no big deal!
As for who picks up the “scrapped” production line I threw away and what it’s used for, it’s none of my business. The factory owner thought to himself.
Besides, Cloud Dream’s orders should be coming to an end soon.
He had already received news that while Cloud Dream was expanding its own production line, it had also started to reduce orders from other cooperating factories.
In other words, there’s no second chance; if you don’t make the money now, you’ll never have the opportunity again!