Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 177 - 177: 175: A Little Bit of Heartthrobbing

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In order to let the shy Camille Victoria eat at ease, Lincoln didn’t continue teasing her and finished the meal quietly.

Then he stopped her from trying to wash the dishes and stuffed the bowls and chopsticks directly into the insulated box. After covering the box, he handed it to Yue Pengju.

Usually, Lincoln seldom relied on others, and he would do almost everything on his own.

However, when he was focused on research, he would swing to the other extreme—aside from research and lazing around to rest, he didn’t want to do anything else.

Yue Pengju was actually happy about this, as he had always wanted to do something for Lincoln and show his value, but he never got the chance.

Now, even doing odd jobs was satisfying to him, at least it wouldn’t make him feel like he was freeloading.

Lincoln and Yue Pengju were in two completely opposite states:

Lincoln wanted to just freeload, but he always had a lot of things to do, keeping him busy all the time.

On the other hand, Yue Pengju wanted to have something to do and show his value, but he always had nothing to do except for driving and daydreaming all day, unable to even find things to keep him busy.

Perhaps this is the reality that the course of life is often unsatisfactory…

When Lincoln returned, Camille Victoria was curiously looking at the large-scale neural modem, examining the details while trying to identify a part or two.

“Are you interested in this?” Lincoln asked.

Camille Victoria waved her hands, “I’m just looking. This should be highly confidential, right?”

“Not really.” Lincoln waved his hand, “The earliest prototype of this actually was made using the equipment and components you bought for me.”

After that, Lincoln began explaining to Camille Victoria, trying to use a way she could understand, how it went from a single channel to multiple channels, how the performance was concentrated, and how the software architecture maximized the hardware’s effectiveness and so on.

He didn’t know how much the Princess could understand, but while explaining, Lincoln’s own thoughts became clearer, and many details he had encountered before now had new ideas.

Camille Victoria only understood a little bit at first, and in less than 10 minutes, she began to feel confused.

Her learning ability and critical thinking were indeed strong, but that didn’t mean she could understand higher-level knowledge just by listening to Lincoln’s descriptions without any intermediate knowledge.

Nobody could!

Well, maybe Gauss could.

But Camille Victoria wasn’t smart enough to be a mathematician.

—Geniuses might be one in a million, but mathematicians are at least one in a hundred thousand; and if you want to be a successful mathematician, the standard would be even crazier, like one in a million, and that might not even be enough!

Camille Victoria stopped trying to understand halfway and just stared at Lincoln as he spoke nonstop, her eyes filled with admiration.

When Lincoln finally stopped talking, he felt inspired and eager to make some modifications.

However, seeing Camille Victoria still wearing a beautiful long skirt, standing gracefully by his side, he hesitated a bit.

He usually avoided being impolite to guests, at least not to those he had a good relationship with.

However, Camille Victoria immediately understood his hesitation and whispered, “You don’t have to worry about me. I understand that feeling.

Inspiration is fleeting, so when we have it, we must seize it immediately.”

Lincoln nodded and didn’t hesitate anymore. He took the headband from the side, put it on his head, and the Focus Mode was automatically activated. —It seemed automatic, but in fact, Mavis was controlling it. All the smart devices in the house were under her management.

It wasn’t a simple Focus Mode but a “Full Power” mode with Mavis’ assistance.

In this mode, Lincoln immediately adjusted the equipment, moving smoothly and efficiently, with almost no breaks for reconsideration.

Princess Camille Victoria couldn’t help, but she didn’t find it boring either. She sat on the sofa not far away, quietly watching Lincoln work.

It wasn’t until Jordan knocked softly on the door that Lincoln woke up from his trance in front of the huge device.

He was surprised to see that nearly an hour had passed.

He quickly looked at Camille Victoria, who was still sitting quietly beside him, and apologized, “Sorry, I didn’t realize so much time had passed.”

“That’s okay,” Camille Victoria shook her head and handed him the prepared water. “Did you make any progress?”

“Of course! I made significant progress, and if all goes well, I will probably be done tomorrow!” Lincoln took a big gulp of water from the cup and said, ‘You helped me a lot again.”

Camille Victoria shook her head repeatedly, not willing to take credit for such a huge achievement, “It’s all thanks to you, Lin, I didn’t understand much.”

Lincoln didn’t argue, “I’ll thank you some other time, we should go now, or Brother Jian will start worrying.”

Saying that, he turned around to open the door for Jordan.

Princess Camille stood in place, furrowing her pretty eyebrows, feeling a little upset and a little bit happy.

But there was nothing she could do about Lincoln, so she stomped her foot and followed them out.

It wasn’t until Camille Victoria and Jordan each held a Mirage 2.0 Host and got in the car to leave that Princess realized: she hadn’t had a chance to ask Lincoln if “Light Encounter” would be released this week.

It was originally planned to be released this week, but Lincoln seemed to have forgotten about it as he got busy.

Everyone also felt that the current popularity of “Assassins’ Alliance” was incredibly high, so there was no need to rush the release of a new game, competing for attention with themselves, so they didn’t remind Lincoln about it either.

Camille Victoria had been involved in designing much of the content in “Light Encounter” and was looking forward to the game performing well.

So on the way there, she was thinking about taking advantage of this meeting to ask Lincoln about his plans, and if he still intended to release it this week, try to persuade him to postpone it.

However, she somehow managed to forget about it…

After returning home, she changed into her sleepwear and lay in bed to text Shuihua.

“Shuihua, Shuihua, Shuihua, I got the virtual image plugin for you!”

“Yay! I knew you were the best! Nobody can refuse our beautiful and adorable Princess!”

“Ahem! Don’t go spreading rumors!” Princess Camille was a little flustered. “Not spreading rumors, we’re just talking about it privately!”

“Speaking of which, do you remember when you provided information about the scalper group? Lin said he wanted to give each of us a Second Generation Mirage Console. You remember, right?”

“I remember, but didn’t we decide to refuse it?” Shuihua was a little puzzled, as they had discussed this the night it happened.

Camille Victoria blushed a little, “It’s because of you!”

“Because of me?” Shuihua was curious, “You couldn’t refuse, but you can’t blame me for that!”

“It’s for your scores!” Camille Victoria was a little annoyed, “If your grades were good, we really wouldn’t have to accept.”

—Although, based on her understanding of Lincoln, if he insisted on giving it to them, she would have a hard time refusing.

Camille Victoria told Shuihua in detail about the Second Generation Mirage’s [Focus Mode].

As soon as she finished, Shuihua immediately screamed in surprise, “Wow!

This is awesome! Boss Lin is so generous! I approve of this marriage!”

Princess blushed and ignored her nonsense, taunting, “Do you want me to go back now, return the console to Lin, and tell him Shuihua doesn’t want it?”

“No, no, no! I was wrong!” Shuihua hurriedly begged for mercy, “It’s me who wants it! I really need it! If I can get good scores, I will definitely remember your kindness!”

“Hmph!” Camille Victoria hummed smugly, set up her new Mirage 2.0 Host, and carefully packed away the first-generation Mirage that Lincoln had given her.

After operating it a bit, she texted Shuihua again, “I’ve shared the Virtual Image

Customization Plugin with you.”

“Great!” Shuihua was even more excited than when she learned about Focus Mode, “I’ll go online right now!”

Camille Victoria quickly warned her, “Just to be clear, you can’t misuse this! I’ve vouched for you.”

“Vouched?” Shuihua asked curiously, “What if I do something bad? Will you become his wife as compensation?”

She mischievously said, “In that case, should I go do something bad right

“What are you talking about!” Princess Camille got angry, “If you keep saying things like that, I’ll ban your privileges!”

Shuihua wasn’t afraid of this threat and continued to press, “Do you dare say you’re not the least bit interested?”

“No!” Camille Victoria vehemently denied. However, in her heart she was sayingWell, maybe just a little bit..