blogombal Chapter 17: The Game Begins to Spread
Chapter 17: The Game Begins to Spread
After the man who had been calling a mouse a duck walked away, a burly man with long, silver-gray hair, wearing a dirty leather apron and holding a butcher knife coldly stared at the other man's back.
Only after the figure pointing at a mouse and calling it a duck disappeared around the corner did the man turn back.
As time passed, by the time the bat appeared, most players had returned to their rooms and were preparing to log off.
Calling a mouse a duck is no exception, but he logged off to ask his boss for leave.
That's right, the Assassin Master even skipped work to play games.
Blue Star.
"Fed? Dad, I'm not going today. I have something to do. That's all."
Xue Huaisu, whose game was called "Pointing at a Mouse and Calling It a Duck," picked up the phone and dialed his company boss.
"What are you up to, you rascal! You've been loafing around since graduation. We sent you to the company for some experience, and you only behaved for two days before you started acting up again..."
Xue Huaisu calmly hung up the phone, then casually tossed it aside before putting his helmet back on and logging back online.
When "Pointing at a Mouse as a Duck" was relaunched, the only ones still active in the game were Xian Dan and his uncle Li Ming, who was always happily jogging in circles in the courtyard at night.
After all, most people don't actually come from wealthy families, let alone have a chairman of the board as their father.
Although he was online, he didn't leave the room. Instead, he lay on the bed, playing with a short knife, quietly lying in wait.
How can you possibly do espionage openly and honestly?
Meanwhile, Viserys was lying on his side on the bed, with a video of him pointing at a mouse and calling it a duck playing on the blue light panel in front of him.
While the probability of Aegon being hidden in the kitchen is low, Viserys is still suspicious of the idea of having an Unsullied planted there. He'd like to use the player to find out what's going on in Illyrio's kitchen.
As for whether Illyrio would use the discovery of his misrepresentation of a mouse as a duck to stir up trouble, Viserys was not worried at all.
To put it bluntly, among all the Targaryens in the world, besides Viserys and his sister, there are really no other pawns who can be used to draw fire.
Unless Illyrio recklessly pushes Aegon into the limelight, Viserys can't think of any reason why the other party would kill him. As for house arrest, humph, isn't he under house arrest now?
Cao Cao could tolerate Emperor Xian of Han for the sake of his reputation before and after his death, so how could Illyrio, who wanted to put Aegon the youngest on the throne, not tolerate him, such an important pawn?
Blue Star.
Wang Wu and his three roommates went to their early morning class with great enthusiasm. Of course, they couldn't really absorb the knowledge, so chatting in the back of the classroom was a must.
"Hey, have you ever heard of a 100% realistic holographic game?"
"I've heard of it; it's a setting from an ancient game-themed novel."
"If such a game really existed, would you want to play it?"
"Of course! Putting everything else aside, theoretically, having an extra ten or more hours of free time is something everyone would want!"
In the spacious classroom, it soon became a situation where the teacher was lecturing at the top, while Wang Wu, Li Peng, and the other three were talking below.
The students, who were originally scattered across the classroom, now mostly gathered around Wang Wu and his group.
"Judging from your confident assertion, I basically believe you in principle," said the chubby classmate, glancing at the passionate history teacher on the stage while using his book to shield his eyes from Wang Wu's gaze.
"I'd like to give it a try. After all, Wu Zi's reputation in our department is pretty good. He wouldn't be so bored as to play such a prank, and he's unlikely to be an accomplice to fraud. I'm not afraid."
"Anyway, if it's fake, I'll just beat him up!" The tall and burly classmate Fan Hu said, raising his fist at Wang Wu.
In just one class period, Wang Wu and his three classmates managed to convince eight students to believe in their claim of a 100% holographic game, and they all said they would register on the game's official website that evening.
At the same time, Zhao Xiaotian logged off and immediately called his father, Zhao Hongtian.
"You little brat, what a load of crap!" As soon as the call connected, Zhao Hongtian's impatient voice came through the phone to Zhao Xiaotian's ears.
"Dad, do you remember when I mentioned that holographic game to you last time...?"
After listening to Zhao Xiaotian's account of the game for a while, Zhao Hongtian first asked to confirm:
"You said your third uncle has already entered the game, and..."
"That's right, Dad. Everything in the game is exactly the same as in reality. I think this game will be more than just a matter of becoming popular in the future."
"Dad, think about it, how many people in this world, like my third uncle, long for a pair of healthy legs or a healthy body?"
Zhao Xiaotian's words made Zhao Hongtian start to think on the other end of the phone.
"Dad, there's a currency in the game that players need to obtain by completing system tasks, but there's no way to recharge it in the game. In other words, all virtual currency in the game is not equivalent to real money."
I believe that once players have accumulated a certain amount of assets, a trading market will inevitably form among them.
"Back in the day, you were also into Legend of Mir, and there were plenty of people who spent a lot of money buying equipment. There's no reason why no one would throw money into a game that's almost identical to reality!" Zhao Xiaotian paused here.
After his father told him to continue, Zhao Xiaotian then launched into a long and eloquent speech:
"We can definitely organize our company employees to play the game before it becomes popular, and be the first to try it out."
Although I haven't come up with any other ideas besides accumulating virtual currency and spending a small amount to acquire items before existing players think about this, I believe that once you, Dad, enter the game, you'll definitely have more ways to make money than I do!
"Hmph, you brat," Zhao Hongtian's lips curled up on the other end of the phone, clearly pleased. After a while, the business tycoon seemed to have made up his mind:
"Send me the official registration website for that game later. If it's really as realistic as you say, it might truly be an opportunity for our family to reach new heights!"
While the Zhao family father and son were communicating, other offline players were also frantically forwarding the game to their friends and family.
In a short time, the number of registered users on the game's official website and the number of people in the "Fun People Playing Together" group, which serves as an initial group to learn about the game, both increased dramatically.
Gaming groups (77)
Mufa said: Holy crap, what's going on? Our group has never had so many people before!
I love pineapple pizza: What else could it be? I pulled six of them by myself. Guess what they were after?
I eat goji berries like they're my staple food: Hmph, this group is hopeless, they've been taken over by goji berries.
Mantou Immortal: Upstairs, just wait until this game becomes a hit and you get proven wrong.
Anime/manga otaku: I came here for the game, guys, is it really as amazing as they say?
The continent of Essos.
Although Viserys had already anticipated this, he couldn't help but feel excited when the number of people on the official website reached the maximum of one hundred at an almost insane rate.
"Little Fireman, quick! Add another hundred registration slots to the official website!"