Local time, three thirty in the afternoon.

After arriving in Hawaii, Xu Lin went to the hotel to check in.

Incidentally, he contacted Li Yongsheng.

Li Yongsheng is still in Europe.

But Xu Lin needed to come over for inspection and pay the balance now, and naturally, he was ready to come over immediately.

"See you at ten o’clock tomorrow morning."

Xu Lin made the phone call.

"Alright, Boss Xu, I’ll come right over on my private jet!"

Xu Lin ended the call.

"Private jet?"

Luxury sports cars, yachts, private jets...

These are truly rich people’s toys.

Hearing the words private jet, Xu Lin was tempted.

However, upon consideration, Xu Lin felt it wasn’t necessary for now, but he would consider it in the future.

For instance, once his alias, Young Master Xu, is fully exposed, when he goes abroad, he will need his own private jet.

If he flies like he does now and the plane ends up having a bomb or something.

Xu Lin would be gone.

After checking into the hotel.

Xu Lin first went to the hotel’s third floor to have a Western meal.

Afterward, he returned to his room to work.

About a dozen hours ago, Xu Lin updated the game’s world plaza, and it’s now trending at number one, topping the trending lists on both Douyin and Weibo.

Because the world plaza Xu Lin updated is extremely large.

Unlike game maps, it doesn’t have a proportionate compression with real-world maps.

The world plaza is a one-to-one replica of real-world geographic distances.

Area: three times the land area of Huaxia.

Players could only say it’s terrifying.

Additionally, with the previous update of flying swords, players can fly around, only then realizing how ridiculously large this world plaza is.

With tens of millions of players gathered here, it’s not crowded at all.

After all, in real life, Huaxia’s territory spans more than 9.6 million square kilometers and accommodates over a billion people, with many areas still sparsely populated, with more population concentrated in cities.

Then, what do mere tens of millions of players count for?

Even Vietnam, a tiny place, has a population of over a hundred million.

Because the world plaza is so large, even with tens of millions of people flying around with a sword, it won’t appear disorderly.

It’s also worth mentioning that Xu Lin’s world plaza isn’t just a slab of concrete or tiles—it would be quite boring that way.

Xu Lin combined various real-world terrains, like plains, mountains, plateaus, hills, along with karst, wasteland, glaciers, and other landscapes, equivalently bringing the continents of real life into the game.

Xu Lin designed it this way to prepare for the layout of the maps within the subsequent games, after all, games need varied terrains to be more playable.

This is just basic operation for Xu Lin.

Because, actually, the current map is very small compared to the entire game world in Xu Lin’s conception.

What Xu Lin released is not even the tip of the iceberg.

"How many flying swords have I sold?"

Xu Lin checked the data and found that flying swords priced at a hundred yuan each had already sold 33,585,634 units.

More than thirty billion yuan in revenue already.

Furthermore, since the game launched about twenty days ago, it has already sold 81,365,245 units.

This month it is evidently going to break a hundred million.

In total, Xu Lin’s game has already brought in over a hundred and ten billion yuan.

A listed company is only at this scale, and in fact, most listed companies do not even reach this scale.

Starting from a hundred billion is already a terrifying scale.

Even in top-tier cities, this scale is a major taxpayer.

If it’s in second or third-tier cities, you’d be at an emperor-level, bearing the responsibilities of tax payments and job provision.

Of course, Xu Lin still has to pay a lot of taxes.

The other game, "Man’s Guide to Reversing Fortune," due to the new game launch, has players flocking over, but this month, it still contributed over ten billion yuan to Xu Lin.

But as everyone knows, in this world, no matter which country, having too much money isn’t necessarily a good thing.

As the ancients said, small fortunes bring peace.

These words are used by some as an insult, implying that a person has no aspirations or ambition.

Clearly, such people have a low perception; small fortunes bring peace is actually the ideal state, as too much money becomes unmanageable, and waters that are too deep are beyond your control.

Therefore, Xu Lin wants to spend money in vast amounts and evaporate it.

Only spent money truly belongs to you.

Local time, twelve at night, which is six in the afternoon the next day in Huaxia.

Xu Lin updated two new functions in the game.

One is Dao Companion, and the other is Faction.

Essentially, finding a partner and establishing a faction.

Because the game characters possess highly intelligent attributes, finding partners and establishing factions require effort.

The partner is self-explanatory.

Establishing a faction is different, as it involves employing people, many being workers who’ve never even been minor leaders, so they don’t know how to utilize people, and how to make them work for you. Generally speaking, giving them money or benefits will do, but this is the most superficial understanding. Utilizing personnel is a profoundly complex science. Throughout Huaxia’s history, this issue of employing people has existed for thousands of years; many dominators succeeded because they knew how to use people and had an extraordinary team under them, having the capital to dominate the world, contending with other dominators, and even ruling the world directly. Almost to say, a person’s ability to employ people determines whether they can become an extraordinary figure.

These two updates equate to adding two new gameplay elements.

Therefore, Xu Lin specially updated his Weibo:

"Updated two functions. The first being the Dao Companion function, as we all know, finding a partner is the easiest among the updated two functions. Although my game is just a game, everyone knows that the characters inside simulate thinking, so if you want to find a suitable Dao Companion, it’s both easy and not easy.