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Chapter 529: Unscrupulous technology!
[Burning Boat Club], the BOSS land reclamation can be started earlier than expected.

But strange things also happened: it seems that all their good luck has been completely used up, and the next exploration is not going well.

I didn't find the Hell's Fortress for a long time, so I didn't need it anyway, but I couldn't find rare minerals, gems, and useful enchanted books.

Three mines were almost hollowed out one after another, but they didn't find a single diamond, not even much gold for making golden apples.

When he got out of the ground again, the elation before Splash had long since disappeared, and he was even a little suspicious of life.

But Lin Shun next to her let out a long sigh of relief: Great, don't worry about Shui Hua getting into a car accident tomorrow...

Seeing that Shuihua was still doubting his life, Lin Shun comforted him in a timely manner: "Okay, anyway, the portal has been found, and everyone on my side has arrived, so you don't need to help us anymore, go play by yourself, I will I'll help you with your homework."

"Do you really want to help?" Shuihua shook her head, "I'm just kidding, now I'm in the third year of high school, so I definitely have to write it by myself. Besides, you go to class during the day and go to work at night, so it's not easy to finish your part."

"It's better to wait until noon tomorrow, and the school cafeteria invites me to dinner. I want to eat braised eggplant!"

"Okay, I'll treat you, eat whatever you want!" Lin Shun agreed without hesitation.

Based on the price of meals in their school cafeteria, a meal worth 20 yuan is considered amazing.

Shuihua was not in the mood to find albino animals, so she went offline to study.

In the end, when Lin Shun and his teammates started the challenge, they could only wear the basic iron armor—after all, you don’t need to look at your face when you use the iron machine.

And how much advantage their club can bring by opening the portal faster is actually hard to say.

——Not all clubs are ready for long-term combat and open up servers independently.

Many clubs are based directly on the personal world of players who have played games and have accumulated a certain amount of experience. The challenges they open are not slow to start.

As for why it must be a personal world?

That's because the public world is fighting again...

Considering the astonishing number of players in the public world, Lin You generously placed 648 end portals in the public world.

The problem is, the players don't know this.

Friendly players meet halfway, and they can also communicate friendly, challenge together or try in turn.

Those who are not so friendly will act first and plan to monopolize a portal.

Some players didn't intend to challenge the BOSS, and only focused on ambush around the portal to destroy - some player teams collectively went through the portal to fight the BOSS, and as a result, all the beds left behind were smashed to pieces.

After the group was destroyed without accident, it was revived at the birth point of the map, looking at the surrounding environment with a dazed expression, and after reacting, it could only be incompetent and furious.

The most outrageous thing is [Public World No. 22]. After the conditions for clearing the level were discovered, the players here only belatedly discovered the End Portal. They had actually discovered it a long time ago...

I don't know which big melee was the result. A large number of TNT blocks blasted a huge deep pit on the surface of the ground, exposing the deeply buried underground fortress.

The players in the melee had no time to pay attention to the exposed underground buildings, and continued to throw explosives at each other crazily until the underground fortress was completely destroyed.

Then the indestructible portal became very eye-catching.

But in this picture, there are very few players engaged in exploration. Everyone tried the things in their hands, and after finding that they couldn't be destroyed, they left them behind.

So now I know: Oh, it’s for this!

Then will they start to clear the wasteland?

would not!
Around the portal, countless traps and hidden players have turned it into a complete death zone. The level of crisis is as close as the birth point, and whoever comes will die.

Those who are really interested in challenging can only return to their personal world.

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Yunmeng's announcement was like throwing a boulder into a pond, causing huge ripples.

Chaos and disorder, with thousands of things happening intensively within a short period of time after the announcement.

Players even feel a little overwhelmed.

It was not until 2 hours later that the situation was alleviated and order returned——

In the public world, those who can occupy a portal can directly start the challenge.

If you don't have a chance and want to play, go back to your personal world.

And the teams of the major anchors and teams have basically figured out the game mechanism of the opening stage of the boss, fully passed the "prelude" stage, and entered the official battle of the boss.

At this stage, everyone's progress has become clearly visible: just compare the remaining HP of the Ender Dragon.

The teams that are ahead of the progress naturally get more attention, and the heat begins to gather towards them quickly.

Especially the team that can stably suppress the Ender Dragon's blood volume to 75% has become a star team.

In the current live broadcast, there are a total of thirteen such teams in Daxia, three in Izumo, four in Baekje, one in Australia, and three in Europe.

And with the exposure of these teams' style of play, there are more and more such teams...

……

Outside of the game, Lin You didn't forget that the princess was still waiting for him in the restaurant after he made up the loopholes, so he temporarily bid farewell to Xiaomeng and returned to reality.

The princess, Yue Pengju, and Jian Xingde all surrounded him nervously.

Once again reassured everyone that it was okay, and threw the specific situation into the work group, told them to send an announcement to explain the situation to the players, and then went back to the dinner table to eat, and told Zhu Cixia the ins and outs by the way.

When he left the restaurant after eating, Lin You also received a reminder from Xiaomeng that the three players had rested enough and went online again. Everything was normal and they were not affected in any way.

Lin You was completely relieved, and waved goodbye to Zhu Cixia.

There is definitely no need to send them off. They have their own drivers, and besides, everyone is not on the way.

*
Even if "Minecraft" suddenly exploded with astonishing popularity again, the game circle was a sensation.

But there are still some people who don't pay attention to this matter.

Yu Gu only glanced at the announcement twice, and stopped paying attention, because a bigger problem was deeply troubling him——

"How did NetDragon's virtual reality technology come about?"

When the boss Zhao Yucheng just announced it, he was so excited—after all, it was something he had longed for for a long time, so that he only thought about how to use this technology, and his mind was full of how to make the game, how to surprise players, and compete head-on. Dream.

Confront Lin You, creator of virtual reality games!
Just thinking about it makes his heart beat!
Even though he found that the supporting software system was very lacking and it would take some time to actually start developing the game, it did not hinder his enthusiasm.

For the whole afternoon, he was enthusiastically recording inspirations, thinking about the theme of NetDragon's first virtual reality game.

Other than that, there was no time for him to care.

After returning home from get off work, leaving the working environment, and calming down completely, this question suddenly popped up in Yu Gu's mind: How did this technology come about?
Although he is not a veteran employee of NetDragon, he has been there for four or five years, and he still has a lot of contacts and news sources in the company.

In the past few months, the program team has basically made no big moves, and it has not been heard that they are researching virtual reality technology.

As for the R&D team, the place of work is different. He really doesn't know the work of the R&D team, but the R&D team supervisor and deputy director left on the same day, and then the high-level key employees left one third in a short period of time.

These are all well-known things.

Yu Gu really doesn't understand technology research and development in the field of hardware, but no matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like the research is progressing, right?

If it is not the program team, nor is it the credit of the R&D team—or they are not the main credit, then where did this technology come from?

It can't be like Yunmeng, the boss Zhao Yucheng's potential suddenly exploded, like Lin You, who single-handedly developed the technology within a week, right?

"Hahaha, what am I thinking!"

As soon as this idea came up, Yu Gu couldn't help laughing out loud, he felt that this idea was too outrageous.

The more he thought about it, the more entangled he became, and finally he couldn't help it. He rummaged through the boxes at home and found the internal magazine issued by the company at the end of last year. On it, he found the phone number of Wei Zhang, the former head of the R&D department who had resigned. After thinking about the wording, he gave He dialed the phone.

"Hello? Who is it?" Wei Zhang answered the phone.

"Hi, sorry to bother you, I'm Yu Gu, NetDragon's new chief designer of virtual reality game development. I led the team to complete the production of the DLC of "Blame 3" before."

"Yu Gu?" Wei Zhang thought for a while, but didn't have any impression, but...

"Chief designer of virtual reality?" He was a little surprised.

"Yes." Yu Gu affirmed: "The reason to bother me is because I have doubts about this matter."

Wei Zhang has calmed down his surprise, and asked with an obvious smile: "Doubts? What doubts?"

Hearing the smile in Wei Zhang's words, Yu Gu immediately realized: Wei Zhang must know something!
"This technology seems to be a bit too easy to break through? I thought that it would take two or three years at the fastest before the second virtual reality company will appear on the market. I didn't even think that the second company would be Net Dragon."

"Hahaha, your guess is correct. If it is a normal method, NetDragon's two or three years will definitely not be enough, and it will be possible in five or ten years!"

"You mean..." Yu Gu felt his heart slowly sinking: "The virtual reality technology that NetDragon currently possesses is obtained through 'abnormal' means?"

"I didn't say that." Wei Zhang didn't admit it positively, but said: "I just made a rational judgment from a technical point of view."

This is not so much a denial as an admission in disguise.

If another technical expert makes such a judgment, the credibility is still doubtful, but who is Wei Zhang?

——Former Head of R&D Department of NetDragon!

He must know the strength of NetDragon's scientific research team better than anyone else!So how could there be such a big deviation in his judgment of technology?
Especially when one-third of the core backbone of NetDragon's R&D center has been lost, and no new talents have entered...

So this technique...

Wrong way!

Since it came from a wrong path, it must have come from Yunmeng!

Thinking about Lin You's consistent behavior style, the risk of this matter has been greatly increased, and it is even difficult to evaluate!
Thinking back to the departure of Wei Zhang and those technical backbones at this time, is it really like what the boss Zhao Yucheng said-"fearing hardships and difficulties, and fleeing in battle"?

Or... is this an "emergency escape" they had to do?
What about himself?
Are you really going to risk stepping aboard this stolen ship?

(End of this chapter)