Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 169 - 169: 167: The Real First Completion Battle!

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Single parent, no criminal record, raising a child alone.

Now the child suddenly has a serious illness, perhaps she really has nowhere to turn…

Lincoln sighed in his heart.

However, he didn’t feel too guilty since mistakes had consequences.

Besides, seventeen consoles sold in the secondhand market could make about two million, if well-channelled, right?

It might sound like a lot, but the law doesn’t work that way, and you can’t calculate the store’s loss that way.

Cloud Dream makes its own consoles and sets their official price. Now that the store has been robbed, do you want to calculate the loss with reference to the prices set by scalpers in the secondhand market? It’s a joke, right?

So the loss must be based on the official price, which is 170,000 yuan.

It’s still a lot for ordinary people, but in terms of sentencing for theft, it’s probably just over three years.

Add the fact she’s not a mastermind, behaves well in prison, earnestly accepts education and repents. With good luck, she might obtain sentence reduction.

Although it sounds cruel, for some people, one or two years are very important. However, for many ordinary people like her, those couple of years are not that important.

Back then, if someone had told her, “You go to jail for three years, and we’ll pay for your son’s treatment and medication until you get out.”

She would probably agree without hesitation.

It’s just a matter of grabbing at a lifeline.

“Do you think the store should hire some security guards?” Liang Tian interrupted Lincoln’s thoughts.

This incident also sounded the alarm for him, making him realize that managing a Cloud Dream Experience Store in Xiajing City is not the same as running a video game store in a small county.

“Security guards?” Lincoln thought for a moment, “No, I have connections, I’ll find someone tougher for you.”

“Tougher people?” Liang Tian was a little puzzled, looked at Yue Pengju coming over as if he realized something, “Oh, boss, you mean the security company where your bodyguard is from, right?”

Lincoln shook his head without hesitation, swinging his head like a rattle drum.

Are you kidding? Hiring people from Yue Pengju’s “company” to work as security guards in an “internet cafe”?

Stop joking, okay? Who could have such a big face?

At least Lincoln didn’t think anyone was qualified.

His plan was to go to the unmanned factory and ask Factory Manager Zhou Jingzheng to introduce some veterans from the battlefield.

After all, it was just a game experience store, not a military base.

Consoles would soon be available on the market, and the probability of this happening would only decrease. It would be enough to have a couple of veterans on watch to earn some extra money.

Yue Pengju also conveyed Lincoln’s opinion, then turned and told Lincoln that the surveillance video was being collected and summarized, but it took a lot of time to collect it from every store.

Although Lincoln was a bit bored, he had already come and didn’t want to go back to the studio.

There was no big deal anyway. He was just tired from studying the large-scale neural modems and wanted to change the mood. He would also watch the anchors play games in the studio.

And watching anchors play games was the same anywhere.

Lincoln had Liang Tian turn on the three-meter-wide projection screen and slumped on the sofa to watch live streaming while waiting for the result.

There were no customers in the store for now, due to the theft and temporary suspension of operations. However, out of habit, Lincoln still put on wireless headphones.

As soon as he put the headphones on, instead of the sound from the live broadcast room, Mavis’s soft and glutinous voice came through, “Master… why don’t you come and watch with Mavis.”

Her voice was pitiful and sold cute very well.

Lincoln whispered softly into the microphone, “Alright, I haven’t finished my work here. People are busy helping us deal with the problem. If I go into the virtual world to play, it would be too disrespectful to them. It’s not good.”

“Alright, Mavis, you’re the best. I’ll come play with you once I’m done with work.”

“Mm-hmm!” Mavis nodded vigorously, then stopped talking.

The sounds in the headphones switched back to the live broadcast room, but from time to time, Lincoln could still faintly hear Mavis eating, clearly on purpose.

Lincoln didn’t mind and began watching the live broadcast.

The livestream room of Lance was still being played.

Last night, Lance ended the broadcast in disgrace and posted a rant on Spiritual Rhinoceros, causing a wave of sympathy from his fans.

However, he fully demonstrated the excellent mindset adjustment ability of a professional player, as he started another stream early this morning. He had completely stabilized his emotions and did not continue blindly attacking the textile factory. Instead, he returned to the previous key point in the mission Old Daddy Cross’s house.

He no longer just stared at the weapons on the wall but carefully searched for clues.

Quite smoothly, he found the defensive layout of the textile factory on a desk, along with some special blueprints featuring a mouse.

Lance picked up the blueprints and took a close look, discovering a very familiar object tied to the mouse – explosives!

It was as if a lightning bolt flashed across his mind; Lance remembered that during his previous soak in the restoration pool, the “Russian” who died had demonstrated how to tie explosives to a mouse’s body for him!

Also, why did he insist on telling Lance “a thousand mice” before his death?

It wasn’t nonsense! Although he seemed crazy and might not even be aware of the conspiracy surrounding the protagonist, there was apparently some tacit understanding between him and Cross!

And now, both of them were dead.

Lance was the last person who knew the truth and had to deal with the Alliance!

He did not hesitate to follow this plan, getting a car according to the mission guidance, trapping mice with peanut butter, and attaching the explosives prepared by Old Daddy Cross to them one by one.

—This process was quite torturous.

Although Lincoln had given up on the realism to cater to the players’ experience, making these mice have light-colored fur, be clean and obedient, extremely quiet, and just short of being hamsters!

But the process still gave Lance goosebumps.

The audience in the live broadcast room was also creeped out. “No way, is this a mandatory part? Does everyone need to do this?” “I feel like I will never complete the game in my life, despair!”

“I’m starting to regret buying the game in advance. Can I still get a refund?”

“Before you refund, remember to offer your virtual wife up for everyone to use.

The strategy group will be grateful!”

“Could it be that if you have a higher level, you wouldn’t need these means?

Leveling up the skills might allow a strong kill, right?”

“Speaking of which, Lance made the wrong choice earlier. If he kept Old Daddy Cross around, it should have been much easier, right?”

“I’m not sure, but I definitely won’t be shooting! At the very least, the step of catching mice and attaching explosives one by one can be handed over to Old Daddy, right?”

“What about the priest? Why didn’t he come out and help? Did he just slip away after delivering the will? Is that realistic?”

The chatter in the livestream room didn’t affect Lance. He now had a car full of moving bombs and had arrived outside the textile factorv.

Seeing the gate not far away, both Lance and the livestream room became quiet.

That’s because they knew that the real final battle was about to begin!

Whether it was the ending of the game’s storyline or the ending of the first completion battle that countless players were paying attention to, the finale was about to arrive.

Whose hands the final victory will fall into and whether Lance can win the championship will be revealed soon!