Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1288: Chapter 1161: We are about to be completely annihilated!

Chapter 1288: Chapter 1161: We are about to be completely annihilated!

[Simulated Humanoid Robot] The idea was not new.

After the engineering team at Prosthetic Journey Company had produced prosthetic limbs that could almost deceive the eye, Lincoln had once entertained the notion.

Back then, he had thought about giving Mavis a body.

But here was the problem — making limbs realistic is straightforward, provided you are willing to spend the money and have skilled engineers; that’s not an issue.

But the head…

That’s another level of difficulty.

Especially the eyes.

If they aren’t perfect, the more you look at them, the more unsettling it becomes.

In comparison, creating a pure Steel Terminator is easier than creating a Simulated Humanoid Robot without any uncanny valley effect.

So, after soliciting Mavis’s opinion, Lincoln temporarily shelved the issue and handed it over to the engineers at Prosthetic Journey Company for research.

— Mavis had no strong desire for the real world; for her, an intelligent life nearly omnipotent in the virtual world, the real world was quite limiting.

In the virtual world, she could wave her hand and conjure a dock and a bag of fries, but in reality, you’d have to buy the fries and drive to the dock, which would take a long time to accomplish the same thing.

Even if it didn’t feel like a fish jumping from water into the air, it was at least like a cultivator leaping from a world rich in spiritual qi into an era where it was just beginning to recover.

Not convenient at all.

If it weren’t for Lincoln spending much of his day in reality, she might not even have thought about entering it.

For this reason, Lincoln had put the matter out of his mind for a long time.

Only yesterday, when the idea came to him again, did he remember this task and checked the work progress of the engineers at Prosthetic Journey Company, organized by Mavis for him.

Because Lincoln had put it out of his mind, he hadn’t paid much attention to the engineers’ progress reports, only looking at them occasionally after a long interval.

And without responses from him, the engineers felt that the Boss was still not satisfied and that they needed to work harder, so they spared no expense, invested more and more heavily, achieve results that were patently more realistic.

By the time Lincoln finally wanted to use this technology, their achievements were already fully serviceable.

To put it bluntly, even without pairing their technology with Lincoln’s Secondary Artificial Intelligence, the technology they developed could instantly topple over ninety percent of the doll companies around the world.

— The remaining ten percent were a bit special because of their sexual quirk.

If coupled with Secondary Artificial Intelligence, the potential would be even more limitless!

The only problem was that this thing was rather precious; the cost would be super high, and damages like scratches or bumps would require repairs.

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For the time being, it could only serve as an expensive toy.

But for Lincoln, of course, money wasn’t an issue.

If not for the limited time, he could manufacture a set of the most expensive, most complex heads to allow Camille Victoria to switch them out at her leisure.

But now, with time being short, he decided to focus on just two.

Lincoln got to work.

Mavis didn’t quite understand Lincoln’s train of thought but joined in to help without a second thought.

…

Lincoln spent the daytime of that weekend in the laboratory.

Come evening, he joined the enthusiastic Camille Victoria for the live streaming of “The Way Back Home”.

In a corner he hadn’t noticed, players from [First Ascend Camp] were gathering.

After the creator upgraded the discussion group, the limit went from 5,000 to 100,000 members but was instantly filled up!

The creator had to upgrade again to accommodate 300,000, which was barely enough for the time being.

Now, out of the more than two hundred thousand members in the group, over forty-six thousand had arrived at the checkpoint outside of Chang’an City.

If this position weren’t still within “The Way Back Home” world, not a public area, it would surely be overrun with cats and dogs!

All of them are nimble cats and dogs!

Those with short legs that can’t jump high, or the ones that are so fat they can only roll…

They’ve basically been eliminated.

Super Tomato could no longer bother with playing “The Way Back Home;” instead, he turned on the discussion group and relayed the live streams of [First Ascend Camp] players—there were more than thirty similar live broadcast rooms.

It’s hard to say how many would survive once the charge began.

Super Tomato, wanting to see more screens, only lied in his virtual house and used the panel function to open 9 displays arranged in a 3×3 grid, live streaming 9 different scenes at the same time.

[20:30]

The sound of the charge horn blasted through [First Ascend Camp].

Forty-six thousand cats and dogs began their charge toward Chang’an City!

This time, it wasn’t just about one checkpoint entrance.

Three checkpoints, two dog holes, four walls one could jump over using the streetlights…all possible breach points that were relatively close had streams of cats and dogs pouring in.

There were even quite a few cats and dogs wearing spring boots, and with inflatable backpacks on, sprinting!

Compared to the newbies who charged naked without any items, not even clothes, these were like pet special forces!

There’s no room for trickery in the first 20 meters; it’s all on you—plus, at most, one teammate.

Only after you’ve made it past these 20 meters without getting caught do you get more cover and help from others.

And this…

Was not difficult!

Don’t forget, those who came to this charge were hardcore “Chang’an” players!

The Combat System of “Chang’an” tests most intensively the player’s reaction speed and distance control.

The latest chapter of “Chang’an” is “Dark Soul”!

A player that can clear “Dark Soul” doesn’t have much trouble with a prepped 20-meter sprint through the checkpoint.

“Charge, charge, charge!” cheered Super Tomato.

He didn’t even get the chance to cheer a second time before eight of the nine live streaming screens in front of him showed cats and dogs successfully dodging the net traps and stick weapons of the law enforcement robots, breaking through the 20-meter defense line.

Then—

The screen became drenched in rain.

A rain composed of various breeds of cats and dogs.

A countless number of cats and dogs suddenly surged from the screen, like a mudslide, instantly overwhelming the anchor and submerging the live broadcast screen.

The intelligent live broadcast software immediately zoomed out the lens, and a panoramic view was displayed—

An endless stream of cats and dogs suddenly appeared from thin air, plummeting into the rolling mass of cats and dogs that surged forward like an avalanche.

Hundreds, thousands of cats and dogs, completely unable to control their bodies, were packed together with other players, carried along in a tumbling rush into the distance.

The law enforcement robots and modified human police were firing on all cylinders now, their net traps and batons nearly leaving afterimages with how fast they were moving, rubber bullets firing incessantly, and from time to time, cats and dogs vanished in a flash.

But the torrent of cats and dogs seemed nowhere near thinning out.

Their arrests couldn’t keep up with the player influx rate!

A full forty law enforcement robots and five modified human police were mobilized, red warning lights blaring, but they still couldn’t stop this tide of pets.

Super Tomato watched as a modified human police officer got tackled by a pile of dogs in the screen.

While struggling to push them off, he shouted into the radio on his shoulder:

“Requesting backup!

Requesting backup!”

“Checkpoint 42 is being invaded by a large number of unidentified pets!”

“We need support!!”

“Who’s joking?!

We’re about to be completely wiped out!!”