Chapter 559: Chapter 538 Who is buying? (1st Update)
“Miss Rosh, do you have any questions this ti?”
Silver had spoken with Rosh in private voice chats before, not for the first ti since that instance mission, after which Rosh would ask him about matters and intelligence related to the Spirit.
“Are you busy right now?” Rosh could hear the sound of flipping pages from Silver’s side, it seed he was busy working.
“Very busy, extrely busy. Didn’t I ntion it last ti? The new devices we’re using to connect to the Holy Spirit World, the ga pods, have so quality issues… and my business partners are trying to figure out how to oust . Right now, my desk is piled high with various arbitration docunts and contracts, and I have a troubleso eting coming up soon,” Silver chose to speak frankly.
“Then I won’t disturb you any further.” Rosh was about to hang up when…
“You’ve already disturbed , but I don’t mind you disturbing a bit more,” Silver had stopped flipping through the docunts on his desk, “and if your trouble is related to that boss called Grey Eyes, I think he won’t live much longer.”
“Won’t live much longer? Have you found his weakness, or a way to enter the Sustainable Sanctuary, but… even if we could enter the Sustainable Sanctuary in groups, it might still be possible…”
Rosh panicked the mont she heard Silver declaring Grey Eyes’s death sentence because for her, the victory in this war wasn’t about killing Grey Eyes, but about rescuing all the people inside the Sustainable Sanctuary… including her own mother.
For Rosh, the Spirit’s massive invasion of the Sustainable Sanctuary was undoubtedly… a very dangerous situation. It would accelerate the corruption of the void, and what the Spirit armies would face wouldn’t be just Grey Eyes and the Hunters, but a Void Insect Nest with Eternal DNA and a swarm of bugs far more troubleso than the Hunters.
“Calm down, Miss Rosh. Didn’t the Spirit just announce Grey Eyes’s health points?” Silver said.
“Yes.” Rosh quickly cald down and listened quietly to Silver’s plan, “That’s not Grey Eyes’s health points but the number of residents in the Sanctuary controlled by Grey Eyes. There’s also been a recent increase… It would be very dangerous for the Spirits to try to eliminate this ‘health bar’?”
“Very dangerous, extrely dangerous. Currently, Grey Eyes’s health can only be reduced via the instance called Power Trial, many among us Spirits cannot withstand the Power Trial instance. The worst cases resulted in fainting and loss of consciousness, including the risk of ga pods being destroyed,” Silver said.
The Hyper-space Recycling Device can indeed recover NPCs of Supervisor level and above, but these NPCs’ consciousness still harbored the presence of the grey mist.
Grey Eyes was the third world-class lord the Spirits had faced, the first being Queen i, the second the consciousness of Black Tide Island.
Queen i was the easiest to tackle; everyone treated it like entering an instance, just casually fighting without any real burdens on the players.
The second, the consciousness of Black Tide Island, or Denghis Xisi, had already begun to manifest… causing negative effects on individual players’ reality, but these effects were limited to confrontations with the Beheading Squad in the consciousness space of Black Tide Island.
The third world-class lord Grey Eyes, his influence affected all players in the server who dared to challenge him.
The Power Trial instance was limited solely to gars using ga pods. Success or failure… drained significant physical and ntal energy from the players.
This had also put the ga Spirit into the focus of public opinion lately, questioning ‘Is playing the ga Spirit in ga pods safe?’
“Can the Spirits really accept such risks?” Rosh believed a small part of the Spirits, the hardcore gars, were willing to take these risks to harness their powers.
But these players were ultimately in the minority. Grey Eyes’s over eight million health points could not be reduced by just a couple hundred Spirits; it might take the efforts of all players in the server to stand a chance.
“Regarding this question, Miss Rosh… would you like to attend a eting I am about to go into?”
“A eting, can I, as an outsider, attend?” Rosh asked.
“No problem, this is a public arbitration eting, anyone can attend. So, I am going to enter the eting room now,” Silver said.
“…”
Rosh didn’t say anything more; she heard Silver opening the door.
On the other side, Silver was now in the Dispute Company’s uptown headquarters, where the arbitration eting was to be held to recall the problematic ga pods.
As soon as Silver entered, he was surrounded by various responsible persons from the parent company of Dispute. Today, Silver was filling in as the first shareholder of Bubbles for the eting.
In the eyes of most people at the parent company of Dispute, Silver and Bubbles were like those suddenly parachuted bosses whom everyone resented, ssing around in company decisions without any clue, and causing sses that the technical staff needed to clean up.
So Rosh, rely by listening in on the side, could feel that Silver… was struggling alone against a group of people.
“It’s like ‘I’ve already told you that the technology of the ga pod isn’t mature enough.'”
“Putting it on the market prematurely eventually led to problems, and now multiple countries are embroiled in legal disputes over the safety of the ga pods,” they said.
Spirit always ca well-prepared, patiently communicating with the parent company about various solutions to the market issues concerning the ga pods.
But it was apparent that these people were not here to do business; their goal was to recall the defective ga pods.
Eventually, Spirit sighed deeply when he realized that communicating with them was futile.
“Ladies and gentlen, what ti is it now?” Spirit interrupted everyone in the eting room.
“It’s exactly six o’clock, Mr. Lyu. Could we continue with the topic we were discussing?”
“No need to continue, let’s just look at the financial report for the second quarter. I should have the right to see the financial report as a shareholder of Dispute, right?” Spirit asked.
“The financial report for the second quarter, but the second quarter…”
“Ended one minute ago.” Spirit stood up, walked over to the fax machine, and at that mont, the fax machine had already spit out a pile of printed financial reports. “The asset managent of the Dispute parent company is calculated by Sky Palace 13. At tis like this, I too marvel at the efficiency of artificial intelligence. Would you gentlen like to print a few more copies? It seems unnecessary, just use the projector.”
A financial report detailing the revenue of Dispute’s parent company from April to June was displayed on the eting room’s whiteboard. The revenue from the “Dispute” ga still made up the bulk of the company’s profits, followed by the profits brought in by the ga pods.
“First week sales 500,000 units, two-week sales 2 million?”
The executives stood up in shock when they saw this number, unsure whether to believe it was real.
This was a ga pod, not a re ga; a ga pod could be treated like a car. Could cars reach sales of 500,000 in just one week of being on the market? This was almost an impossible feat historically.
“With such significant safety risks associated with these ga pods, who on earth is buying them?” another executive exclaid in a mont of shock.
Logically, ga pods were priced way beyond what ordinary people could afford; the main issue was that recently, ga pods had been embroiled in safety controversies, and rumors were flying everywhere that the ga pods could cause death.
The Dispute parent company hadn’t even advertised this newly launched ga pod; this launch looked like a trap set to undermine Spirit and another high-ranking official parachuted into the scene.
Yet, instead of facing a Waterloo, the sales of ga pods had within just two weeks decimated another core business of the Dispute parent company, the VR devices.
“The core user base of the ga pods are Holy Spirit players; currently, the only ga perfectly compatible with the pods is Holy Spirit,” a mole among the executives revealed the conclusion of the market research on the ga pods.
“Holy Spirit? Didn’t the tech departnt already confirm that playing Holy Spirit with the ga pods could cause them to catch fire?”
“That probably won’t deter Holy Spirit players, sir… according to the research, after many Holy Spirit players’ ga pods burnt down…”
“Burnt down?” He didn’t understand the significance of the other party’s pause.
“They bought another. In Holy Spirit, there’s a special instance exclusive to ga pod players; perhaps for these Holy Spirit players, the ga pod is just a ticket to access the instance, a disposable item.”
Is the money of Holy Spirit players blown in by the wind?
That might have been the only thought in the minds of everyone in the eting room.
When the eting room fell into an eerie silence, the door was suddenly pushed open. An employee rushed in sowhat hastily.
“The parent company has just granted the patent for the ga pod technology to Eyes of the Player… Eyes of the Player has already started producing rchandise for replacing parts of the ga pods,” the employee said, panting slightly.
“Patent authorization? What are the people at the parent company thinking!?”
“Don’t look at ; I am just as surprised as you are, but the good news is that the ticket for Holy Spirit players to enter instances might beco a bit cheaper,” Spirit said.
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