That afternoon, after Xu Meng saw Yin Zhiyuan off, he didn't continue to write code but logged into the game.
He hadn't given up on the idea of letting the White Tiger develop and slaughter the players.
He could also give the players some surprises along the way.
However, at this point, his presence or absence didn't really make much of a difference.
After the sulfur mine was discovered, players gradually entered the era of hot weapons, and the intensity of the battles rapidly escalated.
— For the sake of gameplay, Xu Meng put saltpeter and sulfur together, reducing repetitive work for the players, which greatly accelerated the popularization of firearms.
Before, in the age of cold weapons, players had a chance to escape conflicts.
Now that they had switched to hot weapons, once a conflict occurred, it often ended with one side being completely wiped out.
If one side had hot weapons and the other didn't, that was even more so.
… …
Besides the conflicts between players, the King Kong Thunder Rhino that Xu Meng and his people had woken up last night hadn't calmed down either.
This guy was different from the Emperor Sandworm and Nightmare Rain Squid; it had no intention of calming down at all, going berserk every half hour and rampaging across the map.
It was almost becoming a fixed natural disaster.
Xu Meng was almost trampled to death by this guy; after hurriedly completing three hunts, he hurriedly dug a hole, lay down, and logged off.
After that, he still had Xiao Meng study while keeping an eye out for him, to see if he had been discovered.
He himself went to the hotel with the weekend shift of the "King of War" project team to attend the celebration banquet.
After all, it was a miracle sale of 20 million copies; it wouldn't be right not to celebrate it properly.
At the celebration banquet, Xu Meng announced on the spot:
"20 million sales! So—20 million bonus!"
"This is an extra bonus, and it has nothing to do with the performance bonus."
"—Of course, the performance bonus will also be issued at the top level!"
"And then, starting tomorrow, the rotation leave will officially begin!"
"Those who should go back to their hometowns should go back to their hometowns, those who should accompany their families should accompany their families, those who want to travel should travel, those who want to play games should play games…"
"In short, have a good time."
"When you've rested enough, we'll start the next round!"
The employees applauded and cheered enthusiastically.
Some people even asked loudly: "Boss! What does the next round mean? What are we going to do next?"
"Don't think so much!" Xu Meng replied.
"When it's time to rest, rest well, and then talk about work when you've rested enough."
So everyone laughed and skipped this topic.
The atmosphere at the scene was very warm.
Xu Meng also drank one cup after another.
But after the lesson of getting drunk last time, this time his bottle was full of water.
Still warm water.
The little assistant had changed several bottles in advance, and kept following him to make sure that all he drank was water.
After Xu Meng had been lively with everyone at the scene for more than an hour, he very sensibly left early, so as not to make everyone feel restrained.
… …
… …
The next day was a workday.
In the Jinghu office building, half of the staff were gone.
Xu Meng ran to the project team and asked them to send a questionnaire to all the players who were playing or had played [Raging Era].
In just two days, more than 10 million players had logged into the competition server and the regular server.
Many people asked Xu Meng if he had missed a 0.
But after a while, someone realized:
"Is this mocking "Nebula Commando" for only collecting less than 20 questionnaires?"
"Hahaha, how cheap!"
"You're worthy of being Xu Meng!"
"Great Yin-Yang Master!"
… …
Xu Meng's corpse-whipping operation instantly amused countless players.
But everyone didn't expect that this was just the beginning.
Xu Meng continued to output fiercely—
[Warmly congratulate "King of War" for successfully collecting more than 697 player questionnaires!]
[Warmly congratulate "King of War" for successfully collecting more than 1200 player questionnaires!]
Knowledgeable players successively popularized science in the comment area:
"This is the highest online data in the history of "Nebula Commando"!"
"This is the highest sales of "Nebula Commando" on the Vapour platform! But now there are too many people refunding, and it has fallen back below 1000 hahaha."
… …
After these three consecutive blows, Xu Meng stopped his behavior of sprinkling salt on the wound.
Xu Meng's operation was undoubtedly also spread to overseas social networks, making many people in the Du Huo studio very angry.
But they were unable to refute it.
Because "Nebula Commando" showed no signs of surviving.
The current daily online players have fallen below 100… …
This is a vicious cycle.
The fewer people who play, the less people want to play.
The online rate is getting lower and lower.
To the point that even matching has become very difficult now.
Johnson and the boss have already drafted a list of layoffs—a long list covering two-thirds of the entire studio's members.
The process of formulating this list made Johnson very painful.
But in the end, the list was drawn up according to the closeness of relationships—rather than the size of abilities.
After the higher-ups issue the official documents, just lay off people in order.
… …
… …
This afternoon, Yin Zhiyuan came again.
He also brought a special working group that rushed over from Xiajing overnight.
After having an in-depth exchange with Xu Meng and obtaining Xu Meng's consent, they immediately took action.
The first step was to strengthen the security level of Zhumeng and Neuro-Roaming.
The security team underwent a major reshuffle.
Especially the Neuro-Roaming laboratory, the security equipment was fully upgraded.
After that, they helped Xu Meng contact the most powerful material science, optics, and electromagnetic research institutes in China, and successfully persuaded these three research institutes to change their projects and put Xu Meng's project at the top.
These people were not all engaged in liaison.
Some of them obviously had scientific research backgrounds, and their majors were relevant.
When communicating with Xu Meng about the technical details of the holographic display device, their comprehension was extremely strong, and they could almost understand Xu Meng's meaning within two times.
With the assistance of these people, the progress of reproducing the holographic display device was very fast!
So fast that Xu Meng was a little unaccustomed to it.
—I feel like I'm being pushed forward by these people every day!
I can only secretly play games, otherwise I feel embarrassed.
—People are busy with their own affairs, but I'm secretly playing games, I feel guilty… …
But guilt is guilt, the game still has to be played!
Hundreds of thousands of players are waiting to kill him every day.
How disappointed would the players be if they didn't go online!
Of course, he didn't fight much after going online, but kept secretly developing.
Once he found that players had a tendency to gather, he immediately dug a hole, hid, and went offline.
But slowly, this method became a little ineffective.
Because his size was getting bigger and bigger!
Seeing that he was about to become a 20-meter-long giant tiger, it was really hard to hide.
But the good news is: as time went on, the beasts on this map also grew up, which could be considered a cover.
Another important change was—
Players finally began to discover some valuable collectibles.
The shapes of these collectibles were often very distinctive, such as silver wine pots, jade cups, ivory chopsticks, wind chimes, rain chains… …
Many players were reluctant to let go as soon as they got them.
After hesitating for a while, people gradually left the map in advance and brought these exquisite collectibles back to their login space.
So far, the most valuable collectible taken out of the map is a golden apple.
This golden pure gold apple can be brought into all of Zhumeng's VR game scenes—even including the VR version of Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt!
But on the fifth day, a more valuable collectible was finally discovered.
In Qi Huahua's survival camp, a member with the ID [Don't Eat Pickled Radish] pulled out a lump of golden poop while defecating in the toilet.
The moment the pure gold poop landed, an exciting background music sounded, and a loud male voice resounded throughout the camp—
"Dang dang dang dang—"
[Golden Legend!!!]
Everyone in the camp stopped what they were doing at the same time, looking around to see what had happened.
It took a lot of effort for everyone to figure out what the system's [Golden Legend] referred to.
Then a group of people pushed down the toilet and stood around, looking at the lump of pure gold poop, looking at each other.
"Um… …" Qi Huahua frowned, looked at Pickled Radish, and said, "Don't worry, this is what you… …came out with, no one will rob you."
"… …Ah??"
Don't Eat Pickled Radish took three steps back.
He was very reluctant to pick up this thing and take it home!
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