Chapter 551: Chapter 527: Technologies with Illicit Origins!
[Burned Boat Club] can start fighting the BOSS earlier than expected.
But sothing strange happened: it seed like all of their good luck had been completely used up, and the exploration that followed was full of difficulties.
Not to ntion the fact that they couldn’t find a Nether Fortress for half a day, but even the rare minerals, gems, and useful enchantnt books were nowhere to be found.
They had almost emptied three mines but still couldn’t find a single diamond, and they didn’t even dig up much gold for making golden apples.
When they finally erged from the ground, the excitent that Shuihua had previously felt had long since disappeared, and she even began to doubt her life choices.
However, Lance beside her let out a long sigh of relief: “Great, I don’t have to worry about Shuihua getting into a car accident tomorrow…”
Seeing Shuihua still doubting herself, Lance comforted her in a tily manner: “It’s okay, anyway, we’ve found the teleportation gate, and the people on my side are already here, so you don’t need to help us anymore. Go play by yourself, I’ll help you with your howork.”
“Are you really going to help?” Shuihua shook her head, “I was joking, it’s my third year in high school now, I definitely have to do it myself. Besides, you have classes during the day and work at night, it’s not easy for you to finish your own work.”
“Then let’s wait until tomorrow noon, I’ll treat you to a al at the school cafeteria, I want to eat braised eggplant!”
“Okay, I’ll treat you, eat whatever you want!” Lance agreed in a heartbeat.
With the school cafeteria’s prices, eating a al worth 20 yuan is quite impressive.
Shuihua didn’t feel like looking for albinism animals, so she went offline to study instead.
When Lance and his teammates finally started the challenge, they could only wear low-level iron armor—thankfully the iron farming machine didn’t require a high level to use.
As for how many advantages their club could gain from opening the teleportation gate earlier, it’s hard to say.
—Not all clubs are prepared for long-term battles and have set up separate servers.
Many clubs directly use the players’ personal worlds, which have a certain accumulation of experience in the ga, as their base, and start their challenges, not falling behind anyone else.
Why personal worlds?
It’s because the public worlds are in chaos…
Considering the staggering number of players in the public worlds, Lincoln generously placed a total of 648 End portals in the public world.
The problem is, the players don’t know about it.
Friendly players can et halfway and have friendly exchanges, joining together to face the challenges or taking turns trying.
Those who are not so friendly, they’d simply strike first, attempting to monopolize a portal.
There are even players who have no intention of challenging the BOSS, only focusing on causing destruction around the portals—when so player teams enter the portal to fight the BOSS, they find that all the beds left behind have been smashed.
After an unexpected team wipe, they resurrect at the spawn point, looking around confusedly, and can only feel rage when they finally realize what happened.
The most ridiculous one is in [Public World No. 22], where players only realized the condition to clear it after it was discovered—the End Portal, had actually been found…
Sohow during one of the large-scale battles, a huge amount of TNT blocks blew up a huge, deep crater on the surface, exposing the deeply buried underground fortress.
Players caught up in the chaos had no ti to take care of the exposed underground structure, continuing their mad frenzy of throwing explosives at each other until the underground fortress was almost completely destroyed.
Then, the indestructible portal beca very conspicuous.
But in this map, there are very few players who explore, and after trying their hands on the portal and finding that it can’t be destroyed, they simply dismissed it.
Only now do they know: Oh, that’s what it’s for!
So, will they start fighting the BOSS now?
Not at all!
With countless traps and hidden players surrounding the portal, the area had beco a complete death zone, as dangerous as the spawn point. Anyone who cos will die.
Those who are truly interested in challenging have no choice but to return to their personal worlds.
*
Cloud Dream’s announcent was like a huge rock thrown into a pond, stirring up massive ripples.
Chaos, disorder, and countless issues arose within a short period following the announcent.
Players even felt a bit overwheld.
It wasn’t until 2 hours later that the situation began to ease, and order was restored—
In the public worlds, those who could occupy a portal began to tackle the challenge.
Those who missed out and wanted to play returned to their personal worlds.
And the large anchors and teams from various clubs have basically figured out the ga chanics of the BOSS opening stage, fully stepping over the “Overture” phase and entering the formal battle against the BOSS.
At this stage, everyone’s progress has beco clear: just compare the remaining blood of the Ender Dragon.
Teams in the lead naturally receive more attention, and their popularity begins to gather quickly,
Especially those teams that can steadily keep the Ender Dragon’s blood volu down to 75% have beco star teams.
Currently live streaming, there are a total of thirteen of these teams in Daxia, three in Izumo, four in Baekje, one in Australia, and three in Europe.
And as these teams expose their strategies, more and more teams like them are erging…
…
Outside the ga, after patching up the loopholes, Lincoln hadn’t forgotten that Princess was still waiting for him at the restaurant, and temporarily bid farewell to Mavis to return to reality.
Princess, Yue Pengju, and Jordan all looked nervous as they gathered around him.
Once again reassuring everyone that everything was fine, he threw the situation into the workgroup chat, reminding them to post an announcent explaining the situation to the players, before returning to the dinner table to continue eating and explaining the situation to Camille Victoria.
As they left the restaurant after dinner, Lincoln received a reminder from Mavis that the three players had already rested enough and had logged back in, with everything being normal and no harm done.
Lincoln finally put his mind at ease and waved goodbye to Camille Victoria.
There was no need to give her a ride; she had her own driver, and they weren’t even going in the sa direction anyway.
*
Even though “My World” suddenly surged in popularity once again, causing an uproar in the gaming circle.
However, there were still people who did not pay attention to this event.
Jason only glanced at the announcent briefly before disregarding it, as a bigger problem was deeply troubling him—
“Where did NetDragon’s virtual reality technology co from?”
When Boss Richard announced it, he was too excited—after all, this was sothing he had been longing for, so much so that he only thought about how to use this technology, how to make the ga, and how to impress the players, rivaling Cloud Dream head-on.
To directly confront Lincoln, the creator of virtual reality gas!
Just thinking about it thrilled him!
Even if he discovered that the accompanying software system was severely lacking and that it would take so ti to actually start developing the ga, it didn’t dampen his enthusiasm.
He spent the entire afternoon passionately jotting down ideas, thinking about what kind of the to choose for NetDragon’s first virtual reality ga.
He had no ti for anything else.
It wasn’t until he got ho after work and completely cald down that this question suddenly popped into Jason’s mind: How on earth did they get this technology?
Although he wasn’t an original employee of NetDragon, he had been there for four or five years, and he had a fair number of connections and sources of news within the company.
As for the programming team, there wasn’t much action during the past few months, and there was no hearsay about researching virtual reality technology.
As for the R&D team, he didn’t know much about their work since they worked in different locations, but it was common knowledge that the Departnt Supervisor and Deputy Supervisor resigned on the sa day, and a third of the top-notch backbone staff left in an astonishingly short amount of ti.
Jason might not know much about hardware technology R&D, but this situation didn’t seem like a breakthrough, did it?
If it wasn’t the work of the programming team or the R&D team—or at least, they weren’t the main contributors—where did this technology co from?
It couldn’t be that Boss Richard suddenly had an explosion of potential like Cloud Dream and developed the technology single-handedly within a week like Lincoln, could he?
“Hahaha, what am I thinking!”
As soon as this thought popped up, Jason couldn’t help but laugh out loud, feeling that this idea was too absurd.
The more he thought about it, the more entangled he beca, and in the end, he couldn’t help but rummage through his things at ho, finding the internal magazine issued by the company at the end of last year, looking up the phone number of Warner, the forr Departnt Supervisor of R&D who had already resigned, and, after considering his words, dialed it.
“Hello? Who is this?” Warner answered the phone.
“Hello, sorry to bother you. This is Jason from Netdragon, the new Chief Designer of Virtual Reality Gas. I was previously in charge of the production of the ‘Blaze 3’ DLC.”
“Jason?” Warner thought for a mont, not really rembering, but…
“The Chief Designer of Virtual Reality Gas?” He was sowhat surprised.
“Yes.” Jason affird, “Sorry for the intrusion, but I’m a bit skeptical about this.”
Warner had already cald his surprise and asked with a hint of amusent in his voice, “Skeptical? About what?”
Hearing the amusent in Warner’s words, Jason imdiately realized that Warner must know sothing!
“This technology seems to have broken through a bit too easily? I thought it would take at least two or three years before the second virtual reality company would appear on the market, and I didn’t even think it would be NetDragon.”
“Hahaha, your guess is correct. If it were by normal ans, it would take NetDragon at least 5 to 10 years, not just 2 or 3 years!”
“You an…” Jason felt his heart sinking, “The virtual reality technology that NetDragon currently has was obtained through ‘unconventional’ ans?”
“I didn’t say that.” Warner didn’t directly admit it but said, “I’m just making a rational judgnt from a technical perspective.”
This statent was more like an indirect confession than a denial.
If it was another technical expert making such a judgnt, the credibility might be questionable, but who is Warner?
—The forr Departnt Supervisor of NetDragon R&D!
He must have a clearer understanding of the strength of NetDragon’s research team than anyone else! So how could his judgnt on technology be so erroneous?
Especially when a third of the core mbers of the NetDragon R&D center have left without being replaced by new talent…
So this technology…
It’s of an illicit nature!
Since it’s of an illicit nature, it must have been acquired from Cloud Dream!
Thinking about Lincoln’s usual behavior, the risk of this matter has increased dramatically, and it’s beco difficult to assess!
Considering Warner and those technical backbones’ departure, could it be that they really “feared hardship and escaped from the battle” as Boss Richard had said?
Or was it an “ergency escape” that they had to take?
And what about himself?
Would he really risk stepping onto this stolen ship?
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