A professional virtual reality game player.
This was Li Dong's occupation … Of course, the prefix "hardcore" could be added.
He was a professional player who had been in the first virtual online game, Galaxy Era, for more than 20 years.
No one knew the game better than he did.
During the golden development period of the game, he earned millions of dollars by writing game guides, selling scientific and technological information, and exchanging various resources … This was enough for him to live a fairly comfortable and comfortable life.
However, young people were greedy for enjoyment and had no plans to buy a house or a car. They only cared about having fun.
After a few years, the money was almost squandered.
At this time, the popularity of Galaxy Era gradually cooled.
More exciting and fun virtual online games emerged, including magic, cultivation, mecha, and so on. The gameplay was novel, and the senses were more exciting, attracting a large number of players.
This naturally led to the loss of a lot of players in Galaxy Era.
After more than a decade of golden development, players generally matured, resource transactions decreased, and money was no longer so easy to earn. It entered the "Silver Age."
Li Dong's monthly income dropped from more than a hundred thousand dollars to about ten thousand dollars.
Life gradually became difficult.
Of course, this was also an inevitable rule. No matter how fun a game was, it would only be popular for a decade or two at most, after which it would gradually decline.
In addition, Galaxy Era had a fatal flaw, which was that the degree of simulation was too high. Even if the execution efficiency of the game was more than ten times that of conventional circumstances, it would still take more than ten years (real time) to fight an interstellar war that spanned more than ten light-years.
It would take years or even decades to fight a war.
Not many players could endure such a long wait.
After all, in this fast-paced era, people were more willing to pursue sensory stimulation that lasted more than ten minutes, a few minutes, or even more than ten seconds.
Galaxy Era, which had been labeled an "old game" and "outdated," was bound to decline.
But Li Dong never gave up. He became even more excited these two days and explained to his wife in front of him.
"Honey, I think my great opportunity has come. Life will continue to get better."
Mu Wanqiu glared at him. "You mean you agree to go out and find a job, and work hard to improve the current situation at home?"
"No, I think there is still a chance for me to make a fortune in Galaxy Era. Didn't you see the game update announcement? The annual revenue of two trillion dollars is evenly distributed over 200 billion star systems, and each star system can bring ten dollars of revenue."
"What's the point?"
Mu Wanqiu said with a cold face, "You can't even buy a tube of noodles with ten bucks, and you're hoping to make a fortune with this?"
"Of course. Right now, my 'Touki civilization' occupies about 180 star systems, and its sphere of influence covers most of the stars within a radius of 25 lightyears. Multiplied by ten, the annual dividend is about 1,800 yuan.
"Hehe, 1,800. Do you want to starve your entire family to death?"
"But in a year, I'm confident that I can increase the number of star systems under my control to 10,000, and the annual dividend will reach 100,000. This is not much different from what you get when you work."
Li Dong said confidently, as if he had mastered some secret to success.
"How is this possible? You won't be able to occupy so many star systems in a hundred years. Conventional interstellar warships can only accelerate to 0.2 times the speed of light at most, and the general economic speed is only 0.1C. The overly slow pace of the game in Galaxy Era has become its Achilles heel. "
After all, Mu Wanqiu was a veteran player who had been playing Galaxy Era for more than ten years. She knew the characteristics of the game. She came to the conclusion that this was a boring farming game, and she gradually stopped playing it.
Only Li Dong was still obsessed.
"After the version update, the problem of the slow pace has been solved."
"Although it was not explicitly mentioned in the announcement, the era of 'all-out interstellar war' is indeed coming."
"An interstellar warship with a maximum speed of 20 times the speed of light multiplied by 3.3 times the execution efficiency. In a year, the radius of my influence can reach about 100 lightyears, and I will control nearly 10,000 star systems, which will increase my income."
Mu Wanqiu was stunned. "Twenty times the speed of light? How can it be so fast? It's impossible, isn't it? "
"The superluminal curvature engine. Some players have made a significant breakthrough in this area, which directly triggered the version update," Li Dong said.
In fact, the pace of Galaxy Era was too slow because the speed of the interstellar warships was too low, and because the superluminal flight technology had not made progress.
Over the years, a large number of technology-oriented players had entered the field of space technology in the hope of finding a solution to the problem and bidding farewell to the era of inefficient communication.
Hard work paid off. Countless ideas and ideas had finally made a breakthrough in space technology due to a flash of inspiration from a certain genius.
The superluminal curvature engine had the possibility of becoming a reality.
The changes brought about by this were revolutionary.
"With the superluminal curvature engine technology, in an interstellar war, the maneuverability of deploying warships will be a hundred times that of ordinary warships. Not only will they be able to smoothly occupy a military advantage, but they can also easily escape even when facing a powerful opponent. This is how the generation gap is formed. The big will swallow the small, and the strong will bully the weak. An all-out war is about to begin."
"You speak as if you have mastered this technology. If only others have it, but you don't, how can you conquer tens of thousands of star systems?"
Mu Wanqiu rolled her eyes at her husband, not knowing where his confidence came from.
"Who said I don't have it? A good friend of mine gave me a copy of the curvature engine for free. If I sold it to someone else, I would have charged at least one million. But because I have helped him a lot, I gave him a gift of friendship. "
Li Dong looked at her and asked, "How about it? Can you give me another chance to show off my skills?"
This …
Mu Wanqiu was silent for a while. After a long time, she nodded. "Well, I will give you another year."
She agreed to let Li Dong give it a try.
First, she was very familiar with the game Galaxy Era. Although the pace of the game was slow, the realism and intelligence of the game still surpassed other virtual games on the market. The potential was still there.
Second, she believed in Li Dong's ability. After all, in the past 20 to 30 years, Li Dong had earned at least tens of millions from this game, allowing his family to live a good life. Now that Xing Hai Technologies had thrown such a big bait, there were not many veteran players left in Galaxy Era. There was less competition. If Li Dong went all out to fleece them, 10,000 star systems would indeed be very easy.
In the end, she shook her head helplessly.
"It seems that my man is bound to games for a lifetime. Even I was tricked by him. Hmph, if I had known, I wouldn't have played any games."
…
On the other side.
Ever since it was decided to turn the income rights of Xing Hai Technologies' core assets into rewards in the game.
Chen Jin was immediately in trouble. His head swelled.
Ming Jian said:
I've been a little busy these few days. My head is a little messy.
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