Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 874: Chapter 830: Fair and Square Hidden Warehouse_1 Chapter 874: Chapter 830: Fair and Square Hidden Warehouse_1 “What is the gift?” Sisi asked curiously.

“It will be a fantastic gift, I promise!

So, you must wait for me to give it to you, okay?”

“Okay.” Sisi nodded.

“Promise.”

“Mmm, I promise.”

“Pinky promise?” Lincoln extended his little finger.

Yet Sisi looked a little scornful, “You’re such a child.”

But despite her displeasure, in consideration of there being a gift, she eventually obliged Lincoln and made a pinky promise with her finger.

Afterwards, Lincoln chatted with Sisi for quite a while until she felt tired, only then did he say goodbye and leave the ward.

However, he didn’t hurry to leave but stood outside the ward and continued to chat with Old Man Leonard for a good while before leaving the hospital.

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On the way home, Yue Pengju remained silent throughout.

As Lincoln’s personal bodyguard, he was, of course, no stranger to Sisi, seeing such a situation now must be a heavy burden for him.

But Lincoln didn’t say much, he quietly returned to the apartment complex.

Then without going home, he bid goodbye to Yue Pengju and headed straight for the underground laboratory.

Upon entering the laboratory, he switched on the lights, locked the door, and put on the new headband.

Mavis immediately popped out: “Master, are you really going to do this?”

Obviously, Mavis was somewhat worried.

“Relax, when have you seen me get the short end of the stick?” Lincoln comforted Mavis.

“But this time it’s different.”

Lincoln reached out and gently muffled her pink head, reassuring her again: “Yes, Consciousness Chip is indeed different from everything we’ve done before, but luckily, we can still delay the time when the Consciousness Chip is exposed.”

“So…

are we going to do it secretly this time?” Mavis’s eyes suddenly glowed.

Seeing Mavis’s expression, Lincoln felt much better, but he shook his head at Mavis’s guess.

“No, we’re going to do it openly!”

“???” Three huge red question marks appeared above Mavis’s head, clearly a little confused.

Lincoln smiled and patiently explained his thoughts to Mavis –

He indeed decided to give Sisi a new choice, a new chance.

But he would not rush to create a massive event without considering the long-term repercussions.

After calming down, he had already thought of it: this matter could only become complicated and troublesome if it’s laid out on the table and discussed openly.

But what if it’s not?

What if they do not mention the Consciousness Chip, just stating that they’ve created a new technology that can establish a physical connection between the brain and the device through minimally invasive surgery, allowing players to log into the virtual world in a “wired” way, greatly enhancing connection stability and further enriching sensory perception?

Wouldn’t that make the matter much smaller?

Afterward, using the reason of the “technology being not mature enough” to stop after only performing one surgery on Sisi would be completely justifiable.

As for why Sisi needs this, the reason is obvious: the little girl cannot enter the virtual world because of her physical pain, and this technology is designed to resolve this issue.

Promoting this minor surgery is relatively easy – easy for Lincoln, he can prepare rapidly.

First, create the Consciousness Chip.

Second, convince Sisi’s parents to have Brain-Computer Interface Surgery for Sisi.

Third, replace Sisi’s old device with a new Consciousness Chip, that is — [Mirage 3.0].

By then, Sisi would be largely relieved from her pain, and [Consciousness Transfer] would have essentially completed all the preconditions.

And all these are transparent, without any sensitive issues.

When the time comes, it’s possible to reach upward communication with Lorin to perform Consciousness Transfer experiments legitimately, or if needed, they could embark on a covert strategy, quietly transferring Sisi into the virtual world in the last moment of her life, transforming her into a digital life.

Mavis suddenly worsening and dying while still waiting for permission and preparation would be the worst-case scenario.

Lincoln has already had preliminary communication with Leonard, and Old Master Liang began preparing Mavis’s parents with a preliminary ‘vaccination’ — of course, the justification was merely “to eliminate Mavis’s suffering and allow her to normally enter the virtual world.”

So, the task at hand now is to start working laboriously on producing the chip!

Let’s start with pulling an all-nighter to see its effects!

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The next morning, Yue Pengju rang the doorbell of the laboratory, holding breakfast in his hands.

Soon, the gate automatically swung open, and he walked into the laboratory carrying the food box, delivering breakfast to Lincoln.

What surprised him, however, was that Lincoln was not just getting up, but was still bustling about.

Did he work all night?

This was quite rare.

Furthermore, Lincoln’s facial expression seemed to indicate that the experiment was not going particularly well.

“Is it not going well?” Yue Pengju – having a rough idea about Lincoln working on the chip matter – asked out of concern.

“Not at all, it’s still a bit off.”

“A bit off?

Doesn’t that mean it’s about to be successful?” Yue Pengju was quite surprised considering this was about the microchip!

How long had Lincoln been working on it?

Is he about to succeed already?

However, Lincoln shook his head: “No, we’re still quite far off.”

Even with the recent upgrade of many automation equipment, and Mavis’s assistance using the high-precision robotic arm greatly improving efficiency, they only managed to complete two rounds of chip production throughout the night.

However, all of them failed.

He had verified that it wasn’t a problem with the process development or the operation but the accuracy of the equipment.

The correct flow should first be the maturation of the graphene chip production process, and then move on to the production of consciousness chips.

In the area of specific structured artificial proteins, although the existing equipment does not support large-scale industrial production, performing small-scale edits in a lab environment is not difficult.

However, for the graphene chips, there is no reliable output even from the lab at present.

Many of the devices were produced by Lincoln himself in the lab.

——The technology standards, equipment parameters are all in his hands, with sufficiently precise machine tools, and virtually limitless industrial raw materials for him…

producing his own equipment presents no obstacles.

It was this overconfidence that led him to think that even if he only had the night time, the birth of the consciousness chip would only be a two or three days away.

However, he overlooked something: there is a calibration process between a device being produced, and it being put to use formally.

Furthermore, the more precision the equipment had, the more complex and prolonged this calibration process would be.

——He must use this set of equipment for chip production repeatedly, then decide on the next round of calibration based on the yield rate of the finished product, then produce, then calibrate…so on and so forth until it nears perfection.

But the current situation is that there is not enough time for him to slowly adjust.

Lincoln quickly finished his breakfast, restarted the equipment and had Mavis keep an eye on it for the time being.

He then didn’t return to his room but chose to lay down on the laboratory’s sofa for a short nap.

Yue Pengju tried to persuade him to take care of his health, but unsurprisingly, his persuasion failed.

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Following that, except for the training time at the Aerospace Center and when communicating with Mavis, Lincoln used virtually all his energy on equipment calibration and chip trial production.

Even eating and sleeping was accomplished during work breaks, when he managed to steal some time.

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This high-intensity work and training made Yue Pengju worried, and soon it also created concern within the entire security team.

Because they were unaware that this chip held the key to Mavis’s life, they didn’t understand why Lincoln suddenly began to work so relentlessly, and therefore grew even more concerned about his health.

For today’s Daxia, Lincoln was without a doubt a treasured asset.

The official’s concern for his health constantly remained high.

——About this, the kitchens of several restaurants he frequented, and that of the “company cafeteria”, could strongly attest to it.

So if Lincoln continues to be like this for a few more days, the security team would surely intervene.

However, how to intervene was a problem that they needed to think over: who would Lincoln be willing to listen to?

After some thinking, Yue Pengju could only come up with one person.