Translator: _Min_ Editor: Caron_
At the end of the hallway in the community center was a large office modified from a conference room. The discussion behind the half-closed doors didn’t seem to stop; it looked quite busy inside.
Although the reorganization that happened a while ago affected most departnts, this was the only departnt that hadn’t changed.
A board carved with words hung on the wall crookedly:
Right now, the makeshift office was jam-packed.
“The mission brief is completed. Old Zhang, are you done with the text?”
“Done. Wait one mont, I’ll send it to you.”
“Models Code C10087 to C10129 NPC have been completed. The rest would be here, and a total of 17 AI must be inputted manually, take a look…”
The conference room was separated into individual offices with boards. Fifty programrs with dark eyebags worked in front of the hologram computers and continued to refine the virtual reality MMORPG.
In front of a hologram computer, Du Yongkong scanned through the lines of code. As the director of the ga, he didn’t need to personally type the code like the programrs - he only needed to audit the work of each team and direct ga developnt.
The work sounded simple, but it wasn’t easy at all. The work of fifty people was audited by only him. It was easy to see the impact his workload had on him from the deep eyebags on his face.
But he didn’t mind the tiring work, or rather, he enjoyed it. He was just a chief engineer before the war and never acted as a ga director. But life pulled a big prank on him as he finally got his dream position after the war.
He hadn’t shut his eyes for 24 hours already. After he audited the last line of code, he was planning to nap for a bit on the table, but he happened to see a surprising person.
With Jiang Chen at the door, Du Yongkong’s eyes lit up as he imdiately got up to greet him.
After catching up for a bit, Jiang Chen finally got to business.
“Don’t be so nervous, I’m just here to take a look. Also, did you finish the server?”
“Already done.” Du Yongkong nodded. The humble programr didn’t know how to flatter people, so he just kept smiling and smiling.
Although he looked a bit comical, Jiang Chen really liked simple people like this.
“Let see.”
“No problem! Please follow .” Du Yongkong bowed respectfully and led Jiang Chen to the adjacent junk room.
The condition of the junk room was typical of a programr as there were unorganized paper boxes stacked together. Considering the tidiness of the room, Du Yongkong’s expression looked awkward as he scratched his head.
“It’s okay, I don’t mind. Just let see the prototype of the helt.”
“Ah, okay, heh.” Du Yongkang laughed, rather embarrassed, as he began to dig through the boxes. He moved away a few boxes filled with papers before he managed to drag out the box that contained five virtual reality helts.
Looking at the helts in the box, Jiang Chen felt an inexplicable excitent.
If vessels and cannons were a source of romance for n, then virtual reality helts were the source of romance all netizens longed for. Jiang Chen could say with confidence that for anyone who read web novels or played MMORPGs or single player gas, there wasn’t a single person who didn’t dream of the ability to use a virtual reality helt to write their own story in the world created by 0s and 1s.
“General?”
“You’re not a soldier, just call boss.”
“Okay boss.” Du Yongkong laughed timidly as he scratched the back of his head. “Is this what you wanted?”
Jiang Chen took a helt from the box as he carefully observed it in his hands.
It had a tainted crystal surface along with a bluish-black polyethylene shell, resembling an aerodynamic motorcycle helt. At the back of the helt was a “small tail” covered in scales, the length was close to neck length, and it could connect one’s neural network through microcircuits, interfering with the brain field.
It weighed around 1-2 kilograms, slightly heavier than a motorcycle helt. But it didn’t matter since the helt was activated when the user was in REM sleep mode. Therefore, not a lot of people would choose to play this ga while standing up.
“How much molybdenum does one virtual reality helt require?” Jiang Chen asked.
“Without accounting for improper production material waste, around 300 grams,” Du Yongkang said affirmatively.
“300 grams?” Jiang Chen fell into deep thought as he stroked his chin.
Therefore, one ton of molybdenum could produce at least 3000 virtual reality helts. Once he solved the molybdenum mine problem, this could be produced on a large scale. Of course, there was no rush since before this could be launched officially, Jiang Chen planned to conduct an internal test with so volunteers in the modern world to optimize the ga.
Since it was an MMORPG from a different era, the degree of cultural acceptance from the 21st century would differ from the 22nd century; he didn’t want to decrease the quality of the ga because of lack of attention to cultural appropriateness.
“… To produce 100 prototypes, the logistics departnt took apart a chamber to gather enough molybdenum. Why would we not use the chamber as the platform in the ga? Compared to this outdated technology, the more advanced chamber would be better in both performance and comfort.”
[What? Took apart a chamber?]
[That’s a big loss…] Jiang Chen cursed in his mind, but he didn’t show any of it on his face.
“Performance? Would playing the ga with the helt make the ga lag?”
“It won’t lag. Lag won’t be displayed in the ga with rather simple physics,” Du Yongkong said.
“Then it would be okay. This type of fantasy ga doesn’t need to have a realistic physics model. Don’t take apart any more chambers though; I only need the one hundred helts for now,” Jiang Chen said.
Du Yongkong nodded. Seeing that Jiang Chen wasn’t going to change his mind, he didn’t speak any more. He was only making a recomndation for his boss; there was no reason to argue with the boss over it.
“Then that’s all. I’ll get people to transport the server and the helts in a bit. Also, I almost forgot, did you add security asures to the helts?” Jiang Chen patted his own head and asked hastily.
“I did - the molybdenum gold dense lead barrier can prevent any scanning. Also, if anyone attempted to open the helt, the internal security circuit would forcefully overload and destroy all the graphene circuits and chips inside the helt. It would beco a piece of junk…”
But would anyone really want this outdated technology? Du Yongkong muttered in his mind with skepticism.
Jiang Chen happily patted him on the shoulder. “Haha, good job. Go find Wang Qin in a bit. All the ga developers will receive 50 crystals. This is the reward for your hard work!”
“Thank you Boss!” Du Yongkong was ecstatic.
50 crystals were equivalent to a NAC knight’s basic salary for a month.
He didn’t have any more doubts about the boss’ decision.
Who cares? As long as the boss was happy.
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