The world was in an uproar.
Countless people were either excited or had headaches, unable to sleep the whole night.
Xu Meng, who caused all of this, slept soundly.
The next day, before 8 o'clock, he woke up on his own.
Looking at Xiao Meng, who was still pretending to be asleep, he put on his haptic gloves and gently poked her little face.
Seeing the little one wake up, he got out of bed to wash up, completely satisfied.
Breakfast was naturally eaten at the company.
After all, there was a chef in the company dedicated to serving him.
Giving himself special treatment was not only because he was indulging his appetite, but also at Wu Shuang and others' request.
It was to minimize the risk of being poisoned.
In fact, the purchasing and safety inspections of all food ingredients in the cafeteria shared by Zhুম Meng and Neural Roam had already been fully taken over by the security team.
...
Xu Meng slowly finished his breakfast, and the company employees began to arrive en masse.
Unlike Xu Meng's excellent mental state, these employees were all listless, with sleep deprivation written all over their faces.
As soon as they saw Xu Meng, they immediately became excited:
"Boss! Good morning!"
"Boss, you're too strong!"
"Boss, when are you going to do a holographic upgrade for the company?"
"Boss, you're on the front page of global news websites!"
After Xu Meng announced all the news in one breath, everyone in their address book, whether they knew them or not, started frantically contacting them!
All kinds of flattery, envy, and jealousy kept pouring into their ears.
When had they ever experienced this kind of star-level treatment that everyone was chasing after?
Sleep?
Don't be ridiculous!
The average person only gets a few chances to shine in their lifetime.
Now that the opportunity had come, why sleep?
Bragging to colleagues was the most important thing!
Of course, after multiple training sessions by the Bureau of Secrecy, they were still clear about what could be said and what could not be said.
— If they really couldn't tell the difference, they would just categorize everything as "cannot be said".
...
After such an exciting night, the quality of sleep was naturally imaginable.
But even so, when they saw Xu Meng, the boss who created miracles, everyone immediately perked up.
Xu Meng responded to everyone with a good morning and chatted casually.
As a result, he severely underestimated everyone's enthusiasm, and a crowd of people gathered in no time!
The more everyone talked, the more excited they became, and the entire office became noisy.
Xu Meng quickly said goodbye and ran back to his office to find some peace and quiet.
But as soon as he sat down, his little assistant Chen Mengling knocked on the door and stared at him with a radiant expression.
"What's wrong?" Xu Meng was not used to it.
"I'm a little excited!"
Xu Meng couldn't understand this: "It's okay if other people are excited, but why are you getting excited?"
"Didn't you already know all the content that was released yesterday?"
Xu Meng hadn't even hidden the matter of the Dream Machine from her.
"It's different!" The little assistant immediately said, "Boss, look at these!"
As she spoke, she handed the tablet to Xu Meng.
Xu Meng took it and saw that it was a series of news screenshots—
[Game Company Creates Miracle! The First Truly Meaningful Virtual City is Born!]
[Breaking! Holographic Display Technology Suspected of Achieving Major Breakthrough!]
[Xu Meng: Not Only a Genius Game Producer, But Also a Scientific Research Genius!]
[Zhù Meng Game Company, Valuation Tenfolds Overnight! Global Investors Urge Zhù Meng to Go Public Soon]
[Zhù Meng, the Rising Game Giant and Technology Giant!]
[An Unstoppable New Wealth Upstart, Creating New Standards for the Global Gaming Industry!]
...
Xu Meng's fingers kept sliding on the tablet, and one news screenshot after another flashed before his eyes.
Some were in Chinese, some were in English.
There were also French, German, Russian...
At the top of the screenshots were the names of the media outlets that published these news articles, many of which seemed familiar to Xu Meng.
The news content also varied:
Some talked about games, some talked about technology, some talked about finance, and some talked about the myth of wealth creation...
But no matter which article, they all reported extensively on what happened yesterday, praising Zhù Meng and Xu Meng.
"These are just some screenshots. I've collected all these news articles. Would you like to take a look, Senior?"
"Or if you want to see which ones, just tell me and I'll print them out for you!"
Xu Meng swiped for a long time without reaching the end, and put down the tablet speechlessly.
"You didn't stay up all night just collecting compliments online, did you?"
"There are also people saying bad things!" The little assistant said honestly, "But they're all conspiracy theorists, saying that holographic display technology is fake."
"Whether it's real or fake, wouldn't I know? !"
After saying that, she turned her head to look at Xiao Meng, who was reading a book on the sofa, "Good morning, Sister Chen!"
"Good morning, Sister Chen!!" Xiao Meng responded to her full of energy.
"Okay, okay." Xu Meng shook his head and skipped this topic, "Is there anything I need to deal with?"
If not, he planned to go to the "Monster Hunter" project team to check on the progress.
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"Yes!" The little assistant immediately became serious, took out her notebook and said as she looked at it, "It's also related to these reports."
"From last night until now, we have received 137 interview invitations from all over the world, all wanting to interview you, Boss."
Xu Meng immediately shook his head, "No time! Reject them."
"Oh." The little assistant nodded and crossed out a line in her notebook.
Knowing Xu Meng's nostalgic personality, she still added, "Fire Knife also wants to interview you, and also said that if it's inconvenient, it would be good to interview the development team of [Sprawling Metropolis] or 'Monster Hunter'."
This time Xu Meng did not refuse: "You can directly connect this with the project team and the person in charge. They can decide for themselves."
Chen Mengling then made a note in her notebook.
"Then there's advertising."
"So far, we have received letters of intent for advertising cooperation from 14 medium and large enterprises."
Originally, these matters should have been handled by the marketing department, but this time the situation was quite special—
"These 14 companies all want to advertise in Sprawling Metropolis."
"Some want to open virtual stores, some want to rent the largest billboards, and some want to run ads on the big screen in the central square."
"Run ads in a virtual city?" Xu Meng blinked, slightly surprised.
Currently, Sprawling Metropolis is full of advertisements.
Inserting some real-world advertisements into it doesn't seem like a big problem.
But in reality, Sprawling Metropolis is full of fictional advertisements for prosthetics, chips, cars, weapons, real estate, biotechnology, nightclubs, and the like.
Inserting real-world advertisements can easily affect the player's experience due to mismatched styles.
— Unless the advertisers can do a good job of "localizing" Sprawling Metropolis.
"What kind of companies are they?"
The little assistant turned the page.
"I inquired about the advertising placement prices in traditional industries, and after excluding half of the stingy ones, the remaining few who were more generous are mainly related to clothing, trendy toys, firearms, sneakers, and computer hardware."
"Wait a minute!! Wait a minute!!" Xu Meng felt that he had heard something incredible.
"Did you just say...firearms??"
"Do you mean toy guns, model guns, that kind of thing?"
"Of course not." The little assistant shattered his wishful thinking in one sentence, "It's Remington Arms Company under the Free Group."
"???"
This was really beyond Xu Meng's expectations!
The little assistant noticed Xu Meng's expression, so she picked up the tablet, found Remington Arms Company's email and showed it to Xu Meng.
At the same time, she described the general content of the email to Xu Meng:
"In the email, they praised our great success in the field of shooting games, and also highly recognized the great war that took place in Sprawling Metropolis yesterday."
"They also said that they are worried about the aging of their customer base, and that urban residents have fewer and fewer opportunities to engage in shooting and hunting activities, so the main way for young potential shooters to get in touch with firearms and ammunition is through virtual game scenes."
"Therefore, they have been planning to enter the virtual gaming field for many years, in order to create brand preference among the next generation of users and win the market share of young consumers."
...
Xu Meng looked at the arms company in the email, praising the perfect combination of immersive VR games and firearms, and expressing high hopes for the cooperation between the two parties—
"In the future, Zhù Meng can become the king in the field of games!"
"And we will become the uncrowned king in the field of firearms manufacturing!"
"Let us join forces to create a free and beautiful future together!"
Looking at these bold words, Xu Meng really couldn't hold back.
There were too many things to complain about!
Instead, he didn't know where to start...
