Chapter 713: Chapter 676: Where Did All These Suckers Come From?
As a player, Peter hopes that Cloud Dream never takes a break and works nonstop until they drop.
However, as a new employee who just entered Cloud Dream, he thinks taking breaks is great, and the more, the better.
But——
Don’t take a break when you need to meet a deadline!
“Boss…” Peter asked weakly, “When you said we have two months to build the Space Elevator, you were referring to 60 workdays, right?”
With an eager gaze, he looked at Lincoln, hoping to see his boss nodding.
But Lincoln immediately shook his head, “Of course not. Calculating workdays is too much trouble.”
Peter opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
Turning to look at his four teammates, everyone’s facial expressions were strained.
With the mutual understanding between them, they reached a consensus through eye contact: “We’ll just have to work overtime when the time comes!”
“Alright, that’s enough talking. When can you guys start working?” Lincoln was very accommodating, “According to Cloud Dream’s rules, you can start at the latest a week from now.”
A week later? Are they trying to kill us?
The five of them expressed their eagerness to start working as soon as possible——
“No! I can start tomorrow!”
“I can start this afternoon.”
“I can start right now!”
…
“Mmm, the Human Resources department will handle the rest of the onboarding process.”
“Of course, if you have any issues they can’t solve, you can come directly to me. I should be in the office every day recently, so it won’t be hard to find me.”
“Well, that concludes the interview.”
Lincoln nodded at the five, and finally said:
“Welcome to Cloud Dream, everyone!”
*
After leaving the office, the five [Digital Reserve Team] members didn’t rush to start work in the afternoon.
After briefly discussing amongst themselves, they agreed to start work together tomorrow morning and then left Cloud Dream.
While they were still on the shuttle bus and had not yet left the park, Vanessa couldn’t wait to take out her mobile phone and log into the [National Construction Competition] page—this page had been preserved after the event, showcasing the winning entries.
She happily announced in the comment section, “Starting tomorrow, I’ll be part of Cloud Dream!”
Spectators sent their blessings and immediately started asking for gossip:
“Awesome! Congratulations!”
“So does this mean Cloud Dream is making a sci-fi game?”
“Anyway, you’ll only be part of Cloud Dream tomorrow, not now. How can you not share some juicy news when we’ve voted for you guys?”
…
Vanessa shook her head, “I’m not crazy.”
“Yeah,” Peter joined in, “If we spill something today, we can forget about joining Cloud Dream tomorrow. We’d better prepare to be hunted down by Lincoln.”
“Hahaha, it’s very likely, with Lincoln’s temper…” Another teammate laughed out loud.
Before the laughter died down, the buddy in the back seat suddenly slapped his shoulder and said with a sarcastic tone, “How dare you slander the boss in front of me?”
Unable to contain his laughter, he burst out laughing before he even finished speaking.
“Hahaha,” The laughter spread, and everyone was instantly laughing together.
As everyone was laughing and having a good time, all their mobile phones suddenly vibrated in unison.
This sudden change of events froze the smiles on their faces.
“…”
“Could it be the boss?”
“What are the odds?”
“Or can he see us now?”
Everyone instinctively looked around for a camera.
It’s no wonder they were feeling guilty — all five of them received a message at the same time, just as they had left Cloud Dream and were joking about Lincoln…
This coincidence was too much, making it hard not to overthink!
Apprehensively, they picked up their phones and read the message:
[Dear Player, the Rehabilitator Plan Database is now online. Thank you for your patience. Please “click here” to access the database center and update your personal data.]
“Ha——”
Breathing a sigh of relief, they were glad for the false alarm…
After sorting out their emotions, they all clicked on the link to the database.
…
Three minutes later, the shuttle bus stopped at the entrance to the park.
They all got off, but instead of leaving, they stared at each other in confusion.
“What… What is this?”
On their mobile phone screens, a small preview of the collected data is displayed.
However, all the content is expressed through code, which they cannot understand.
“I don’t understand.”
“Neither do I, but it doesn’t matter, I wasn’t planning on doing anything anyway.”
“Do you want to delete it?”
“I plan to keep it.”
“I also plan to keep it.”
“I’m going to download a copy and then delete it.”
…
After a quick exchange of opinions, only one person decided to delete it, while the other four chose to keep it in the database.
Their choice is a microcosm of the current player group.
At the same time as the [Rehabilitation Plan Database] went online, the 130 million players who had participated in the [Rehabilitation Plan] received notifications from Cloud Dream.
The players were very curious about what data had been collected about them and logged into the database website to check it out.
But after viewing it, every one of them was completely baffled —
They couldn’t understand it at all.
Not to mention ordinary players, even many players with a programming background found the code headache-inducing and very difficult to decipher.
However, despite this, the proportion of players who immediately and completely deleted this data was quite low — less than one-tenth.
Out of trust in Lincoln and Cloud Dream, when Lincoln solemnly declared that this data belonged to the players themselves, most people were willing to believe it.
And since it’s their own data, and Cloud Dream is helping to store it for free, why not keep it?
Maybe in the future, this data will come in handy?
—— But in fact, the quick-witted ones are not planning to wait for the future, they are going to use it now!
*
The speed at which this database went online far exceeded expectations.
It was just too fast!
Especially for those counterparts who were still discussing in meetings about what kind of countermeasures to take due to Lincoln’s manifesto, they were even more shocked.
You’ve already got it sorted while our meeting is still going on??
Is there a need to be so rushed?
Would it kill you to wait for us?
However, while they were worrying, their company’s technical department was very happy.
Cloud Dream’s technology, whether it’s virtual reality or brain-controlled prosthetics, is highly sought after.
But everyone’s reverse engineering and imitation of the technology has hit a dead end, with no progress, as numerous technical teams have studied it for so long without finding a viable replication path.
And after Richard’s unexpected arrest at lightspeed, most of the reverse engineering work was halted.
But not all of it.
There are still technical teams taking risks to research it, without resorting to underhanded means or planning to steal technology for profit.
They just want to figure out: How does virtual reality technology work, and how did Lincoln achieve it?
As long as they understand this, even if they can’t directly profit from this technology, they believe they can gain more inspiration and achievements from it.
And the release of the collected player data from the [Rehabilitation Plan] was a pleasant surprise to them.
Before this, they didn’t even know how Mirage had transformed the players’ neural signals into code!
As a result, one by one, technical teams began to quickly download their own data.
And for those who did not participate in this plan, there is naturally no data available for download.
So what should they do?
The answer, of course, is to buy it online!
——Less than 5 minutes after the database went live, a large number of netizens appeared on the second-hand trading market Sweet Fish, selling their own data.
Moreover, the prices were quite high!
Each piece of data was priced at a staggering tens of thousands!
At first, when they saw these “products,” casual netizens commented:
“Have they gone crazy for money?”
“There are 130 million copies nationwide, and the cost of copying is almost zero, how can this stuff sell for tens of thousands?”
“Are they braindead? Who’s going to buy this?”
…
But the outrageous thing happened soon: as soon as they finished expressing their disdain, the products were sold!
And it wasn’t just one sale, it was 3 times, 5 times, 8 times…rising steadily.
There were even a large number of overseas IP buyers placing orders!
Watching this outrageous scene, those netizens who had just finished ridiculing began to doubt their lives:
“Where did all these suckers come from?”