Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1152: Chapter 1052 “I Will Cover the Registration Fee.”_1 Chapter 1152: Chapter 1052 “I Will Cover the Registration Fee.”_1 “Who on earth does a cameo as a corpse in their own game!?”

“And really a terribly horribly dead corpse at that!”

“Aren’t there bucketloads of people in Cloud Dream to talk him out of it!?”

“Does he not feel the slightest taboo at all!!?”

“No wonder I always thought Nick’s voice sounded familiar, turned out it’s actually Lincoln himself doing the dubbing??!”

…

Shawn was extremely excited.

Oxygen considerations were out the window as he just wanted to rant.

Not only him, in the livestream room, the streamer community too was also stunned:

“Damn, I’ve been scared to death!”

“Suddenly throwing something like this at us, I was nearly about to throw away my mobile phone!”

“I’m done, I’m at the company.

The way it startled me just snapped my headphone wire.

My computer fell over.

The whole office is looking at me.”

“Damn, that’s too much!

But seriously, it is something Lincoln would do!”

“Why isn’t the Little Princess in the family photo?

Why isn’t the Little Princess in the family photo?

Why isn’t the Little Princess in the family photo?!”

…

That’s just the good part.

After all, Shawn was a former seaman who had experienced ocean voyages, he has a resilient heart, that he was still mostly calm even in space.

Most of the time, when he lost his temper, it wasn’t due to the crisis in space, but for furiously ranting and swearing at the command center.

He even had the mood to tease his teammates and tell jokes to the viewers.

But players who are as calm as him are actually quite rare.

Many players would scream while playing.

They were unfamiliar with the sensation of losing gravity.

Now, even a minor slip could make them scream out loud.

Even if it’s someone as experienced as Victoria, who had been part of the closed beta test, she couldn’t help but scream out loud when she was thrown into space again.

——Because today’s technology of Cloud Dream no longer needs to fix where and in what direction players are flung out, it is all random, and the storyline can be ensured to advance smoothly by powerful real-time algorithms, just like Pandora.

If it couldn’t continue, it was not a problem of technology, but a deliberate limit set in the game.

This even applies to closed-beta test players, let alone new players who are completely unprepared.

As for the dancers who hadn’t played the game before, but came for the space dancing competition, they screamed terribly.

Seeing Lincoln’s mind-boggling corpse up close, their screams were shriller than the other’s, similar to a modern banshee’s wail.

A few casual players, who have been attracted by the “space” theme, even directly triggered the emergency mechanism, and were teleported to the [Spring Meadow] to calm down.

Luckily this time, the people who got transferred there were in luck because Mavis was on shift that day and could help them process their emotions.

If you are lucky enough, they might even get a chance to see Mavis dancing.

—— Mavis was very serious about participating in the dance competition.

Of course, since there were people who were scared to shreds, naturally there were also people who were extremely tough-nerved——or to simply put it, thick-skinned.

Yi was one of them.

He had played the beginning of Gravity during the closed beta, so the plot didn’t impact him as much.

But this wasn’t completely a good thing.

Because what the audience likes to watch most during live streaming is the “first impressions”, and the streamers often have big reactions for their “first impressions” during their broadcasts.

The problem with Yi was: he desperately needed to entertain the audience, but he also disliked faking reaction.

So the problem that arose was: how to ensure the entertainment?

After being flung out by the robotic arm and spinning away from the spaceship, Yi began to feel troubled.

His professional ethics told him: he had to entertain, he couldn’t let the audience watch him be idle.

But how to entertain them?

Yi pondered deeply.

In the end, under the intense watch of the audience, Yi finally spoke:

“Guys, how about I entertain you all with a monologue comic routine”

“Huh?” The followers who were watching the livestream and were extremely worried suddenly froze in surprise, not knowing what to do.

Seeing the question marks from his viewers, Yi proposed again, “Don’t want to listen to my cross talk?

That makes sense, it’s not as fun without a sidekick.

Then let me sing a song for everyone?”

Without waiting for his viewers to respond, he started to sing.

And it was an extremely difficult opera!

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But he stopped after singing less than five lines.

Not because his viewers persuaded him to stop with comments saying “Stop singing, dude”, but because he couldn’t bear it anymore.

— He was entirely bundled up in a spacesuit; speaking in a normal voice was fine, but the moment he started belting out lyrics, his ears to forehead were buzzing with discomfort from the vibrations.

If he was in pain, so were his viewers.

He was indeed torturing both himself and the audience, a lose-lose situation.

One of his viewers sent a conspicuous message to him, [Stop messing around, save some oxygen.

Don’t suffocate!]

Yi shook his head firmly, “Not possible, a man might stop living, but he can’t stop the hustle!”

“How about this, I’ll perform a spacemonkey for you all.”

Some naïve viewers immediately bit, “What is a spacemonkey?”

“It’s like this—” Yi took a deep breath, then made a long, strange noise, “Eeyoo—EeyooEeyooEeyooEeyoo~”

“Crackle… “A static noise filled his headphones and communications were restored.

Glen’s voice also sounded, “Doctor Li, how is your mental status…

are you okay?”

—If the player has played “Chang’an” before, the reference in “Gravity” will adopt the surname chosen by the player in “Chang’an”, unless the player asks to change it.

However, overseas players can now use their real surnames without feeling it’s inappropriate.

Yi, caught by the NPC in his spacemonkey performance, didn’t feel awkward at all, “I’m in great mental shape, ask the monkey if you don’t believe me.”

“A monkey?” NPC was confused.

“Eeyoo-Eeyoo!” Yi changed the sound.

“?”

“It says my mental state is excellent.” Yi switched back to his original voice.

“???” Glen doubted life itself, “Doctor, I think you need to see a doctor.”

“What a coincidence, this monkey is also a resident physician!

Let me tell you, its life is super miserable…”

“Stop!

Stop!” The NPC had to stop Yi from his rambling, ignoring the misery of the resident physician’s life, and forcibly shifted the topic back, “Tell me your location and I’ll come to rescue you right now.”

“Oh, I’m somewhere in-between the Earth and the monkey.”

“???” NPC was furious, “Do you want to live or not??!”

“I do, I do.

I can see Tiangong Space Station at my 9 o’clock.”

What followed was a journey similar to Xu Shenghan’s, where Glen flew over to him, regrouped, and then went with him to find his teammates’ bodies.

The only difference was that when they found Lincoln…

no, Nick’s body, Xu Shenghan had 9% oxygen left.

But because of Yi’s chatter, he only had 7% oxygen left.

— 100% of oxygen, under normal circumstances, is enough for astronauts to perform extravehicular activities for more than 6 hours.

This 2% gap is not a small number anymore.

As for the wound on the corpse, Yi not only wasn’t scared but he also asked Glen seriously:

“Nick’s head has a hole in it.

It’s inconvenient for us to carry him like this, I have a suggestion.”

“What suggestion?” Glen asked him while adjusting the direction of the manned mobile device.

“We thread the safety rope through the hole in his head and hang him in between us on the safety rope, how about that?”

The next moment, everyone could see Glen turning his head sharply in space, looking at Yi.

“What?”

“Doctor, if you ever get a chance to return to Earth, you should definitely have a mental health check, preferably at your local police station’s crime psychology department.”

“Ah…

too dark?” Yi quickly recovered, “That wasn’t my idea, it was the monkey’s.”

After three seconds of silence, Glen spoke again: “Go to psychiatry.”

As if worried that Yi wouldn’t want to go, he added:

“I’ll cover your registration fee.”