Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 179 - 179: 177: The True Purpose of High Explosives!

During the creation of the virtual city in “Assassins’ Alliance,” due to limited manpower, actually everyone felt a little regretful, thinking that they couldn’t make it perfect.

Many shops were essentially the same as banks and gun shops; except for a few carefully designed ones, most of them were randomly generated after setting some templates and parameters.

Of course, there would be a process of checking and modification after generation.

Clothing stores were no exception. More than 80% of the clothes inside were based on various basic models, set with different colors, and added with different prints.

Each time the beauticians completed a new type of clothes, they would invoke different key parameters such as prints, colors, and sizes to randomly match each other, generating more clothing items.

So, at first glance, this incredibly rich and wonderful metropolis was actually filled with many repetitions.

Fortunately, in daily life, everyone often sees countless repetitions, and coupled with the short playing time, players have not yet discovered the pattern.

If, at this time, a clothing brand with a strong reputation in reality entered the metropolis and opened a “virtual storefront,” it would undoubtedly be great news.

This was true for both parties.

After all, “Assassins’ Alliance” has been on sale for five days, with the number of real-time online users never falling below 3 million. In another three days, there will be 8 million consoles sold, and with the peak of the start of the weekend, breaking 10 million online was a big hope!

With so many players playing in the metropolis, the brand exposure would be considerable.

Moreover, this exposure was not only for the brand, but players could also directly try on clothes in the virtual world with just one click, which was very convenient.

The effect on sales in reality was definitely much better compared to ordinary advertising.

The only problem was that for such a first-time cross-border cooperation, Boss Lincoln would have to give his approval first.

Reluctantly, Randall could only express “looking forward to cooperating with your company” while regretfully saying, “let’s set another time.”

The person in charge on the other side also politely nodded, showing complete understanding.

In the current business environment, as long as they don’t bear a grudge against Cloud Dream, people usually treat them politely.

Even people who are not happy with Cloud Dream and Lincoln would at most complain privately, and they would generally not attack them openly.

It’s the deterrence power built by a certain Lincoln, a 25 -million-fans influencer after several internet battles.

After seeing off the person in charge of the Southern Branch, Randall checked the time and found it was lunchtime. He took out his mobile phone and called Little Chun immediately.

There was no other way; with the rapid expansion of the studio, there were new people coming in every day. Interviewing and arranging newcomers were all laborious tasks.

This forced him to come to the company in person, unable to stay at home with Little Chun.

However, he was not as worried as before anymore.

Interestingly, Little Chun’s condition had even improved a bit compared to before joining Cloud Dream, whether it was due to her change of mindset or not.

What really made Randall relieved was that Little Chun was no longer as headstrong and accepted his proposal to hire a nanny and a home care worker.

However, Randall still decided that after the busy team expansion period, it would be best to work from home as much as possible and accompany Little Chun.

Meanwhile, the famous player strategy group-—”What’s in the bathroom?” was excitedly preparing for battle.

Just yesterday, the “Assassin Alliance” First Pass Competition had come to an end, with the first three players to clear the game already counted. Even Roger, a single-player gamer, was discovered by the sharp eyes of the gaming community.

First place, Gold Trophy—Roger.

Second place, Silver Trophy—Lance.

Third place, Bronze Trophy—Warehouse Bird.

All of the trophies were indestructible and couldn’t be melted back into precious metals to be sold in the metropolis.

It was the conclusion reached by Warehouse Bird, a well-known civil gamer, who at the time felt very displeased with the little “3” at the bottom of the bronze trophy.

So he decided on the spot — to melt this trophy!

Hundreds of thousands of viewers gathered in the live broadcast room, watching Warehouse Bird run to a workshop where he could learn sword casting, throw the trophy into the furnace, and turn the blower to the maximum.

However, the big fire burned for a full half an hour, and the trophy showed no signs of turning red.

When he took it out with iron tongs and placed it on the ground, Warehouse Bird immediately noticed something wrong. Under the stunned gaze of the audience, he actually reached out with bare hands to touch the trophy just removed from the furnace!

Just when everyone thought that Warehouse Bird was about to sacrifice one of his hands, he grabbed the trophy – and it was actually still cold to the touch!

After burning in the furnace for a whole half an hour, the temperature of this trophy hasn’t changed at all!

This improved Warehouse Bird’s impression of the trophy, and he no longer toyed with it and happily went to pick a real estate.

However, this is not the point. The point is that Yi, Yelang, and many other group friends in the chat rooms named “What’s actually in the bathroom” saw a powerful tool – high explosives!

It’s not that no one had thought of using explosives to blow up the bathroom before, but they were hard to come by in the metropolis. What they could get didn’t have enough power.

But this time it’s different!

Lance had previously used these high explosives in his live stream to make 1,500 mobile bombs, causing chaos in the Textile Factory’s massive castle.

If they didn’t go for the castle, using them to blow up a bathroom should be a piece of cake, right?

It’s time to break into the bathroom and see what’s inside for themselves!

Let’s do this!

The first step is to choose a victim – there are no completely new accounts in the group now since everyone has been playing for several days.

So roll the dice in the group chat to select an unlucky person to delete their account and create a new virtual wife.

The second step is to prepare enough high explosives.

This step is somewhat challenging, as the players in this group are not the type to rush in. They are more passionate about enjoying and exploring the game, so they don’t progress quickly.

Now the person with the fastest progress is still in the Textile Factory, undergoing training tasks, and is constantly watched by the assassins of the Alliance. They can only try their best to catch up with their progress.

It’s not that no one has tried to bypass the training tasks and directly visited Old Dad’s cabin near the train tracks.

– In fact, on the day Lance cleared the tasks, someone directly rushed to find Old Dad and cling to him.

Unfortunately, the results were not pleasant.

After knocking on the door for a long time without any response, they had just wasted time – that’s the best-case scenario.

Yelang thought that since his goal was to find explosives and not to recognize a father, he simply decided to climb over the wall to find the explosives. But as soon as his foot hit the ground, he stepped on a landmine and was blown up into the sky.

What’s even more outrageous is that when he revived and returned to the same location, thinking that the mine had already been blown up and it should be safe now, he confidently climbed over the wall again – only to be blown into the sky once more.

The landmine had been reset!

After reviving again, Yelang was still unwilling to give up and changed his position to climb over the wall.

This time there were no landmines, but before he could land, he heard a short, sharp whistling sound in his ear.

He didn’t have time to react before being nailed to the wall by a two-finger-wide arrow!

After struggling for three seconds, he died once again.

After three consecutive deaths, Yelang finally gave up on trying to break into the top assassin’s house and obediently resumed his progress.

However, they couldn’t skip getting high explosives, or they’d have to wait at least another day before they could enter the bathroom, which they couldn’t endure.

For the sake of the bathroom endeavor, the group owner, Yi, stood out, assembled a 10-person dare-to-die squad, and threw their lives into finding a

path, finally managing to get through with difficulty.

At last, the three survivors rushed into the inner room of the Cross.

Fearing that they would fall short of success, they didn’t venture into other parts of the room, but directly followed the screen of Lance’s live broadcast, where they finally found the place to store the high explosives. So, everything was ready, and all they needed was the auspicious time!