Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1179: Chapter 1073 “Can we gnaw on it in the future?”_1 Chapter 1179: Chapter 1073 “Can we gnaw on it in the future?”_1 In Shuihua’s home, her parents are sitting at the dining table, quietly talking as they wait for Shuihua to log off.

“This kid, why does she play for a whole day?

She’s been on since this morning, right?”

“Yes, aside from eating, she didn’t rest the entire day.” The mother also expresses her worry, “The college entrance exam is in a month and a half, and she’s acting like this now…”

The father, Old Yao, seems to have similar thoughts: “Hasn’t she stopped playing for the past half a month?

What’s going on now?”

“I don’t know, sigh…”

“Sigh…”

The two of them sigh at the dining table.

Shuihua’s marks are excellent now, ranking among the top three in her class on every practice test, even managing to break into the top ten in her grade, making great progress.

Thus, they also dare not interfere too much with her studies.

Some parents might think that since the child is making such great progress, squeezing out more rest time and focusing more energy on studying will surely bring better results.

However, things do not necessarily work out that way.

The true situation is: when a child’s marks are on a steady rise, you’d better not meddle.

Just trust them.

Otherwise, rash directive could break the child’s own rhythm, and the results may not be satisfactory.

Shuihua’s parents are quite self-aware.

So, ever since Shuihua showed her progress, they never restricted her from playing video games.

But right now, playing for an entire day to the extent of forgetting to have meals, this really worries them.

“Should we talk to her after dinner?” Shuihua’s mother suggests.

——To prevent their daughter from becoming upset and losing her appetite, they specifically ask for it to be after dinner, which truly shows their profound consideration.

“We do need to talk to her.” Old Yao initially nods, but quickly changes the subject, “But you should be the one to speak.

I fear that my tone might be too harsh.”

“You do it…”

“You do it!”

“You do it you do it.”

“You do it now…”

“What’s with this ‘you do it, I do it’?

What are you two arguing about?” The logged-off Shuihua just walked out of her room, only to hear her parents passing the buck.

“Nothing, nothing, you’ve logged off?

Come and eat.” The mother swiftly gets up to serve her food.

——The intensity of a college examinee’s family can be seen from this.

“I’ll do it, I’ll do it.” Shuihua spent the entire day playing video games, not a minute spent on revision, and she’s feeling quite guilty.

She dare not let her mother serve her food, promptly rushing to the kitchen herself.

As for the trophy matter, she’s still thinking about how to tell her parents about it.

The family of three sits at the dining table, the parents have their concerns and the child has her own thoughts.

Both parties are racking their brains on how to break the silence; consequently, no one says a word, and the room is only filled with the noise from the TV.

“Buzz~~ Buzz~~ Buzz~~”

The vibration from a mobile phone disrupts the quiet atmosphere at the dining table.

Shuihua’s mother puts down her chopsticks, turns around and picks up her mobile phone: “Hello?”

“Buzz~~ Buzz~~ Buzz~~”

Shuihua’s father’s mobile phone starts to vibrate as well.

He pulls his gaze from his wife and answers his call.

Shuihua watching her parents both on their phones, begins to make a guess.

“What?

Congratulations?

Congratulations on what?”

“Wealthy?

What do you mean?”

“I can’t understand what you’re saying at all, our child didn’t go out all day, how can she win an award?”

“A reward in the virtual world?

10 million?

Are you sure you’re not being scammed?”

“I know that my child has earned quite a bit of money in the virtual world, but if you say 10 million, it’s certainly fake.”

“Set up by Lincoln?

Has anyone else received it?

Haven’t you been conned by a pyramid scheme?

Pyramid schemes also claim to be national projects…”

…

Shuihua looks at her parents, each holding a mobile phone, talking to themselves, and quietly lowers her head to eat.

——She doesn’t have to ponder how to tell her parents anymore, someone is doing it for her.

The only problem was: neither Dad nor Mom believed a word said by the person on the other end of the phone line.

They even thought they might have been deceived…

Shuihua could vaguely hear a burst of laughter from her Dad’s end of the phone, and heard him say, “Don’t believe it?

Go ask your daughter!” before he hung up.

Dad put down his phone and looked at Shuihua with a puzzled expression.

Before he could say anything, the phone started vibrating again.

Not only were new calls coming in, but also text messages and app notifications were being continuously received in quick succession, non-stop.

It was the same with Mom’s phone, even though she was still talking to a friend, her phone was incessantly vibrating and barely pausing.

Mom couldn’t handle it anymore.

She briefly explained the situation to her friend, who responded with a congratulatory laughter, then she too hung up.

Dad and Mom each answered another call and found that the first thing the callers did was offer congratulations.

They exchanged a glance, both seeing the confusion and surprise in each other’s eyes.

After handling that round of calls, they didn’t answer anymore.

They silenced their phones instead, quickly glanced over a few messages, and then turned their attention to Shuihua who was quietly eating her dinner.

“Flower, what the heck is going on?” Mom asked Shuihua.

“I don’t entirely understand either…” Shuihua first shook her head, then explained to her parents, “But the part about us getting rich is real.

Didn’t I spend the entire day in the virtual world today?”

Her parents nodded, indicating her to continue.

“I was on Pandora the whole day, the planet created by Princess and Lincoln.

These past few days, half of that planet was set on fire.

I’ve been dealing with the culprits and replanting trees the entire day.”

“Then somehow, I managed to complete a challenge set by Lincoln, achieved a world rank of number one and received a pure gold trophy.

Whoever’s in charge will probably get in touch with me about claiming the reward within the next couple days—by Monday at the latest if Cloud Dream doesn’t work the weekends.”

Shuihua’s parents strained to comprehend her words.

“Crackdown!?,” was her Dad’s first reaction.

“Did you gather a bunch of people to have a fight?”

“Um…

I directly led the group.

There were probably fewer than 1 million people in total.

But including everyone else who participated, there were probably more than 10 million people.

Perhaps even 20 million?” Shuihua seemed uncertain.

“10 million?” Hearing that number, her Dad was a bit dizzy.

No wonder his daughter described it as a crackdown!

With such a number, a fight against anyone would count as a crackdown!

“How did you manage to rally 10 million people??” Her father was astounded.

Mom interrupted Dad to ask a more practical question.

“Pure gold trophy?

Your aunt told me that the trophy is worth 10 million.

Is that real?”

Shuihua nodded her head.

“The world first place holder gets a 25-kilogram pure gold trophy.

I wasn’t sure about the price of gold recently, but it should be enough.

The trophy is created by Lincoln, so it’s highly unlikely to be counterfeit.”

Upon hearing this, her mother clutched her chest with her fist and took a moment to regain composure.

“Hold on, I need to calm down.”

10 million!

The couple hadn’t made that much money in half their lifetimes!

—They had their house gifted to them by their elders.

Dad clung to his last shreds of rationality.

“You said you don’t really understand… could it be possible that there was a system error?”

Shuihua had actually considered that possibility, but Lincoln had already confirmed to her good friend Camille that it wasn’t a system error.

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The trophy was definitely hers!

But before she could explain to her dad, the television, which had been on the whole time, began broadcasting a piece of news ahead of her—

“Just a while ago, a female high school student in our city, with the virtual ID Shuihua, managed to accomplish a challenge set by Cloud Dream’s founder Lincoln in the virtual world.”

“This enabled her to surpass all Cloud Dream users and reach the top of the world.”

“As a reward, she will receive the second 25-kilogram pure gold trophy, becoming an overnight millionaire.”

“Next, we will be providing a detailed report…”

The local news broadcast time is usually later than the national news, so they managed to include Shuihua’s story as the latest news—otherwise, they would have had to wait until the next evening, and that would have been too late!

Her parents watched the face of their daughter appear on the TV—although her virtual image looked somewhat different from reality due to her hairstyle and makeup changes, how could they not recognize their own child’s face?

They looked at Shuihua on the television, then back at their daughter in front of them, their mouths slowly opening in shock.

“From now on…

can we live off our child?” Shuihua’s mom said, stunned.

“What nonsense are you talking about!” Her Dad quickly retorted, “We should save it up, for our child to…”

The word “dowry” was swallowed stiffly by him.

“We should save it up for our child to spend in the future!”