"It's fine. Continue to observe."
With that, Apple's leader Tim ended the call.
Tim then contacted several other senior engineers, but the responses he received were no different from the first one.
Everyone was absent-minded when he asked them questions, and in the end, they just said, "We still need to observe further."
Tim wasn't too angry, but a sense of helplessness rose from the bottom of his heart. From the moment he stepped into the virtual world, everything Tim saw and touched. It made him deeply understand that the rise of Monster Industries was no longer on the same plane as theirs.
Monster Industries was just like the virtual world he was in now, full of possibilities.
Apple was still bound to the real world, so how could it have the opportunity to catch up with Monster Industries?
Since it was impossible to catch up, it was better to learn more about the differences of this virtual world. Walking on the crowded street, Apple's leader Tim didn't know where to go.
There were obviously many users who were as confused as him.
The virtual world had just opened, and everyone had woken up from a long "sleep" and obtained a new citizenship.
Now that they were out of the hospital and in this city that looked like it was from the 22nd century, they had no idea what to do other than strolling around.
"Where am I?"
"Who am I?"
"What am I going to do?"
On the crowded street, many people were confused and asked the pedestrians next to them.
Apple's leader Tim strolled around for more than ten minutes, slightly satisfying his curiosity, but also curious about the operating model of the virtual world.
Monster Industries wasn't the Red Cross Association, and their purpose in creating the virtual world was definitely for profit.
Now, Tim wanted to find out how they could profit. He believed that the profit of the virtual world would become the next explosive growth point for the global Internet industry and the electronic technology industry. This growth point would become a gold-swallowing beast that would swallow most of the future profits of these two industries.
This giant beast was Monster Industries, but the other companies playing small roles might have a chance to share in the profits.
But after walking around for a long time and calling out his personal interface to study it for a long time, Tim didn't find any way to recharge or spend money.
Tim felt that the design of this information interface was very interesting, and it was different from the traditional operation interface or some kind of game control interface. All the user's personal information in the virtual world was stored on the portable electronic wristwatch.
When this "wristwatch" was activated, a virtual personal control interface would pop up.
His personal information was recorded on the operation interface. When Tim touched the information interface with his hand, he could feel a film-like barrier.
However, at present, Tim's personal information was very simple. The only thing that could be related to his finances was a personal account in the lower right corner, and the amount on it was zero.
Apart from the wristwatch, there was no other operating interface.
Turning off his wristwatch, Tim had the illusion that he was walking in the real world.
…
Five minutes later, Tim contacted the senior engineers.
This communication was initiated by Senior Engineer Bristow, who was born in the Vulcan Tribe. He set up a team channel and pulled everyone in.
Compared to Tim, who had to deal with a myriad of things every day, these senior engineers who stayed at home would undoubtedly be able to adapt to the virtual world faster.
While Tim was clueless, they had already figured out a lot of things. Now, there was an engineer who told Tim that although the virtual world seemed to be aimless, he had asked the NPC in charge of the city that the new citizens who had just "woken up" from their deep sleep had the opportunity to become any kind of profession.
Every profession imaginable could be found here.
In addition, every citizen had an account card that was bound to their identity. The account card was zero, and they could not obtain money by topping it up. However, they could earn money by working, collecting items, selling them, doing tasks, and so on.
Senior Engineer Bristow also told Tim that every city had an official business district and exchange center. As long as he asked the NPCs, he could find out the specific location.
After asking, Tim found out that the city he was in had all kinds of departments, just like in the real world.
There were even sanitation, epidemic prevention, and garden management.
In addition to these, there was also a comprehensive public transportation network.
Tim had no money, so he had to walk for half an hour to the business district of the city.
Then, Tim was stunned …
The business district in front of him was somewhat different from what he had imagined.
Originally, Tim thought it was just a building or a business district like Fifth Avenue. However, this was a huge semicircular building. After walking in, Tim found that the semicircular structure exposed above the ground was only a very small part of it.
Underground, this business district had nine floors, and the area of each floor was larger than the previous one.
The first floor sold clothing and accessories.
Here, Tim saw a variety of things, from ancient costumes to various medieval dresses, to modern suits, and so on.
The second floor sold all kinds of appliances and electronic products.
The third floor was for transportation. There was a dazzling array of cars and motorcycles that were more complete than the Frankfurt Automobile Exhibition. From World War II jeeps, Soviet M-72 motorcycles, German R12 motorcycles, and all kinds of surreal concept cars and motorcycles that could only be seen in science fiction movies.
The third floor of the business district was the size of two football fields. Walking in it, Tim became extremely excited and intoxicated.
Tim was the head of the Apple Empire. As one of the world's top tycoons, he certainly had a garage full of classic cars under his name that matched his status.
Collecting famous cars was one of his hobbies.
Walking here, Tim was pleasantly surprised to find that there were too many antique cars that had completely disappeared from the collection market.
Every antique car was brand new, and on the introduction plate in front of them, there was a price tag.
The cheapest was only a few hundred, and the most expensive was only tens of thousands.
There were also those surreal science fiction concept cars.
From electromagnetic engines to anti-gravity engines that could ignore gravity, there was everything. Although these cars were extremely expensive, easily costing a few million.
But look at the introduction plate in front of them!
Acceleration of 100 km/h in 1.8 seconds.
Speed limit of 500 km/h.
There were even super cars that could drive in the atmosphere with an anti-gravity engine, with a maximum speed of Mach 2.
As he passed by one car after another, Tim found that his legs were gradually turning into cooked noodles, and all the strength in his body was about to be eroded by a virus called happiness.
Money, money, money!
Tim found that he had completely become a pauper, with no money in his account. He only wanted money now, even if …
Even if it was only a few hundred, he could buy a World War II motorcycle.
The third floor, the third floor.
These two floors sold all kinds of weapons.
From bows, arrows, and shields, to World War II and modern weapons that used gunpowder as kinetic energy, and all kinds of armor, and then to extremely sci-fi electromagnetic Gaussian weapons and energy weapons.
In these two floors of the business district, all the technological weapons from human history to movies and animations were gathered.
These two floors were even larger. Tim only took a quick glance and came to the fourth floor.
The fourth floor sold all kinds of military vehicles.
The fifth floor was a huge artificial lake made of clear water, full of all kinds of civilian ships.
The sixth floor was for military ships.
When he came to the seventh floor, Tim was dumbfounded again.
On this floor, there were all kinds of aircraft parked. There were World War II Type Zeros, modern "Panda", "J-8", "J-10", "Black Hawk", "Nighthawk", and even the Raptor F22. Tim wanted to ask Monster Industries if they had paid the copyright fee for these aircraft.
Were there any copyright fees for military aircraft?
Tim thought for a moment and felt that there should not be.
At least, when he looked at the various vehicles on the upper floors, he found that there were no luxury cars that were protected by patents. The modern internal combustion engine luxury cars were all cool supercars designed by designers.
The eighth floor was for extraterrestrial aircraft.
The ninth floor had several interstellar battleships parked!
Of course, the price of each interstellar battleship was prohibitive, even for Tim in the circle of the top rich.
From the first floor to the ninth floor, Tim spent a full four hours. At this moment, he was thirsty and hungry. While taking the elevator back to the ground, Tim quickly took off his glasses and went to the lounge next door to eat something.
After eating and drinking in three minutes, Tim hurriedly ran back into the virtual world.
He desperately wanted to know how to make money.
Once again, he gathered several engineers into the team channel. Sure enough, Tim got the plan of how to make his first pot of gold from these "experts".
The engineer who chose to be born as an orc went to the grassland outside the tribe alone. He used a leather rope tied to his pants and a bamboo pole to make a simple primitive bow. Then he used this bow to shoot a rabbit in the grassland.
He sold the rabbit for five or seven copper coins in the tribe. Then he used the seven copper coins to buy a small defective dagger made by an apprentice in the blacksmith shop.
What could a dagger full of flaws do?
In the hands of this senior engineer, this dagger could become the first fulcrum of modern mechanical processing. He used this dagger to cut a dry hardwood into a suitable shape and used leather rope and other wood to make a primitive crossbow.
With this crossbow, the engineer successfully hunted a small wild boar that weighed dozens of pounds and sold the small wild boar for 120 copper coins.
Tim, the leader of the Apple Sect, thought that the 120 copper coins should be equivalent to 120 yuan in a human city.
With the 120 yuan, the engineer could upgrade his weapon into a standard hardwood crossbow with an iron trigger and five iron arrowheads.
Except for Tim, the other engineers all found ways to make money in their respective birthplaces through their own talents.
Tim coughed twice in the channel. "Give me all the money you make."
"Boss … You should understand that every cent of start-up capital is extremely precious in the early stage of development. If we give you …"
"Besides, we don't have a channel to transfer the money to your account now!"
"Yes, boss, let us continue to develop. If we can't make full use of every cent of start-up capital, we will easily be left behind by other users."
"Ahem ~" Tim couldn't help but blush. It seemed that he could only wait until he found a way to ask for money from them. At most, he would give them an extra bonus as compensation.
Then …
Should he also go outside the city to try his luck?
Tim hesitated for a moment and then made up his mind.
Let's go.
He was walking along the street when suddenly the information watch on his wrist vibrated. Tim opened it and saw that it was a new friend request.
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