Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch-Chapter 1032

Chapter 1032: Chapter 955: The Actual Proof and Order!_1 Chapter 1032 -955: The Actual Proof and Order!_1 Because she caused such a huge mess and received no response despite sending numerous text messages to Lincoln, Victoria had a terrible sleep and woke up late.

When she woke up, she was even worried that she might get banned and couldn’t log in to the virtual world.

——Because she painfully discovered that the media’s discussions are becoming more and more outrageous:

[Is Lincoln really dating or is it just a fleeting romance?]

[If he’s going to marry, will Lincoln’s wedding be held in the real world or in the virtual world?]

[Will Lincoln invite all 500 million virtual users to attend the wedding?]

[Will Lincoln pass the virtual world’s ultimate administrative power to his children, or a professional manager, or turn it over to the government?]

…

Seeing the gossip storm becoming larger and larger, Victoria thought it wouldn’t be an exaggeration if she got banned for a week or two…

Fortunately, such a thing did not happen.

She sighed in relief, logged in to the virtual world, started live streaming, and took Connar out for dinner in Metropolis.

But this sense of relief quickly vanished.

...

Because she encountered a completely unexpected, and even somewhat unimaginable problem:

The virtual world’s NPCs suddenly started ignoring her.

Connar is still the sweet little girl, sticking to her as always.

But apart from Connar, all the NPCs she encountered in Metropolis refused to interact with her!

She tried to buy some ice cream for Connar, but the NPC shopkeeper overlooked her as if she’s invisible and directly greeted little Connar instead.

The candy floss shop was the same.

So was the barbecue shop.

Victoria could no longer suppress a sense of dread, she ran out to the main street of Metropolis and tried to strike up conversations with the NPCs.

But the NPCs simply bypassed her and carried on their own ways, none of them acknowledged her.

At this point, Victoria was thoroughly panicked.

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She didn’t think this was a system bug, but that she was being targeted!

“We’ve got a big problem!”

She hurriedly called Lincoln.

The good news was: her number wasn’t blacklisted, and her call was quickly answered.

But the bad news was: the person who answered the call was not Lincoln, but a female voice.

Victoria almost threw her mobile phone out of frustration.

Fortunately, she quickly realized: This childish young girl’s voice…

sounds a bit familiar?

“Mavis??”

“What can I do for you?” Mavis cheerily asked.

“Why are you answering Lincoln’s phone?” Victoria was puzzled.

“Because you’re calling to find me~”

“Huh?

Why would I be looking for you?” Victoria was stumped, but quickly caught on, “Wait…

the NPCs in Metropolis can’t see me, did you do that?”

“Yep, yep, yep, that’s right~”

“?” Victoria blinked in confusion, primarily because Mavis sounded very cheerful and not at all upset, which made Victoria unaware that she had upset Mavis, “Then why would you do that?”

“Because I was woken up by you yesterday and then a lot of people spread rumors about us, so I wasn’t happy!”

“?!!” Victoria was confused, but quickly understood, and then opened her mouth in astonishment, “The one Lincoln was talking about last night, was you?!!”

“That’s right.” Mavis didn’t hide anything.

‘What’s going on?’

‘Are you really Lincoln’s illegitimate daughter?’

‘Adopted daughter?’

‘Or sister?’

Victoria was producing questions at a rapid pace, but she swallowed them.

Because she suddenly felt relief: “So…

Lincoln isn’t actually dating someone?

Everyone just misunderstood?”

“Well…” The always cheerful and responsive Mavis suddenly hesitated.

“?” Victoria’s heart, which she had just let down, was instantly pulled up again!

“Mavis can’t tell.”

Can’t be helped, Mavis is a good kid, and good kids don’t like to lie – especially when Lincoln never said to hide this matter.

Victoria blinked her eyes.

The viewers in the live streaming room were also stunned, and the comments became sparse.

But soon the comments exploded again:

“So he is really dating!!”

“I knew it!

I knew it!!”

“Big news!

Finally, we got a solid proof!”

“As expected from Victoria!

Easily getting hold of heavyweight information!”

“No need to bet anymore!

I’m going to do push-ups now!

Victoria is so amazing!”

“Victoria is amazing!”

“Victoria is amazing!”

…

The viewers conceded one by one, sending out comments saying, “Victoria is amazing!”

However, Victoria herself was far from excited.

Even when someone mistyped her name as “Auntie is awesome!” she didn’t even have the mood to correct it.

She merely felt that she was tremendously unlucky.

Every phone call she made ended up in unexpected outcomes.

If last time could be blamed on Lincoln spilling the beans on his own, this time she was clearly the one tricking a kid into revealing a secret!

She was totally the culprit now!

“I’m screwed…” Victoria let her head drop in despair.

“Everyone, let’s meet again on a different account in the future, if fate allows…”

Victoria resolved that she would never, never, never call Lincoln while she was live streaming!

–Assuming she hadn’t already been blocked by him.

Fortunately, a sudden event redirected everyone’s attention, cutting off the spreading gossip that was about to flow out from Victoria’s live broadcast room.

Lincoln suddenly announced two new projects.

That was the event.

*

[Mecha Mass Production Plan] was a further expansion of the Department of Culture and Tourism’s intent to order mechas.

While Lincoln was still worrying about how to resolve the “scandal”, Jerome unexpectedly called him.

Originally, Lincoln planned to discuss this with him on Monday, but many people had gotten in contact with Jerome early that morning.

It wasn’t just the Departments of Culture and Tourism across Daxia, the Cloud Dream’s business cooperation mailbox had also received more than a dozen inquiries from all over the world.

They asked in Chinese and their own languages about the price of the mecha and openly expressed their interest in it.

— Among them, there was even a letter from the American Army Department!

Of course, that wasn’t the most absurd part.

The most absurd was: Cloud Dream had received over thirty thousand personal emails!

These were also inquiries about the price, all saying they wanted to buy one.

Among these, many emails were just jumping on the bandwagon.

But more than 1600 emails came attached with proof of assets or identity, sincerely expressing: they really wanted to buy one.

Among these, at least a third were from super-wealthy individuals who could afford to spend several hundred million or even billions to order a mecha!

— Lincoln couldn’t help but exclaim after learning about this: The world really is full of rich people…

Jerome carefully asked Lincoln whether the mecha technology involved any confidential issues, especially if exporting it overseas was allowed.

Lincoln thought there was no problem at all– after all, the real core of the technology lay in the control system, and he was confident in making that an uncrackable black box.

However, he still called Henry first to ensure that the technology wouldn’t be leaked.

He was then successful in obtaining the export qualifications for “special mechanical equipment.”

But Jerome’s idea was not as simple as just “openly selling.”

His idea was to establish two product lines, one producing 20-meter mechas like the [Crimson Storm] and the other producing 10-meter mechas, which would be more cost-effective and flexible for transportation.

There was no need for anything smaller at the moment.

If they went any smaller, the profit margin would start to decrease– though it wasn’t impossible to boost it up, small mechas of three or five meters could potentially be used for military purposes if sent overseas, which wouldn’t be good.

— Although Lincoln would love to see mechas of all sizes appear on the remaining overseas battlefields around the globe, accumulating actual combat data while providing future development directions from a utilitarian perspective…

In the end, he still chose to respect the advice of professionals and try his best to avoid military areas.

Even the production of these mechas needed to have a separate company established apart from Cloud Dream to avoid potential problems.

Lincoln readily agreed.

So, the [Mecha Mass Production Plan] grandly made its debut!

*

As for the [Cloud Dream Cup·National Humanoid Robot Fighting Competition], it didn’t seem as shocking as the [Mecha Mass Production Plan] as it was merely confined to universities within Daxia.

But “allowing top students to practice fighting, controlling robots to fight remotely,” this idea with huge contrast also attracted a massive amount of attention.

The country’s top-tier universities in particular were fully invested in following the progress!

Only half an hour later, Cloud Dream received emails from more than a dozen top overseas universities, politely asking whether they could also join the competition?

They had no choice but to be polite.

As everyone knows, all top-tier universities–whether in Daxia or overseas– have astonishing resources and connections.

However, facing the emerging giant Cloud Dream, they were completely helpless, even lacking the channels to recommend interns.

Some of America’s top universities in particular, voiced their dissatisfaction publicly when Cloud Dream didn’t accept foreign top talents while it was still in its nascent stages.

But only two months later, they quietly deleted these posts and even sent an apology email to Cloud Dream.

They expressed understanding over Cloud Dream’s need for cultural consistency and tech confidentiality within the team during its early development stages.

They showered praise on Cloud Dream’s incredible success, and only then did they gently say, “Looking forward to seeing Cloud Dream adopt a more open and inclusive attitude towards global talent in the future.”

Their attitude instantly became polite.

But, even now, the Cloud Dream headquarters still does not accept foreign employees.

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