Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch-Chapter 1031
Chapter 1031: Chapter 954 [Mecha Mass Production Plan!]_1 Chapter 1031 -954 [Mecha Mass Production Plan!]_1 The next morning, Lincoln stirred awake with squinting eyes.
The morning sunlight couldn’t penetrate the heavy blackout curtain and only managed to spill out a bit from the edges, signalling to the dim bedroom that it was time to wake up.
Lincoln raised his hand, adjusting the headband on his head a bit to stimulate blood circulation in his skull.
Even after the consciousness chip was upgraded again, and the headband function was further enhanced, Lincoln also custom-made a lightweight headband for long-time wear —— for home and office use only because it itself doesn’t have any complex functionalities, only responsible for receiving and transmitting signals, it doesn’t even have a shell.
But still, wearing this thingamajig overnight was not particularly comfortable.
That was why he usually preferred not to sleep with it on, only doing so when Mavis coaxed him enough times, or occasionally, when he lost a bet, or when he gave Mavis too much work and wanted to compensate her, would Lincoln sleep with the “headband” on for a night.
Having adjusted the position of the headband, Lincoln lowered his gaze to the pink head perched on his stomach.
...
Little Mavis didn’t seem eager to wake up.
Lincoln stretched out an index finger and gently poked Mavis’s soft little face.
Mavis made a vague and cute little nasal sound.
But still did not want to wake up.
Lincoln simply gave up on waking her, picked up his phone, dimmed the brightness, intending to check the news first.
But just after scrolling through a few pages, he was dumbstruck ——
[Global Players Petition to Lift Language Restrictions in Pacific Rim]
[Science Fiction Comes to Life!
A Real Mech Appears on the Outskirts of Xiajing!]
[Not only America but Daxia also is building mechs, and they have been successful!]
[Cloud Dream’s Language Restrictions Put off Significant Amount of Players, Sales Plummet Compared to Previous Works!]
[Shock!
Lincoln Spent Last Night With Mysterious Woman (or Man)?
Exhausted on the phone, went to bed early.]
…
“???”
“What the!?!!”
Lincoln was horrified, “What the heck is this?!!”
He could manage with the others, they were all expected.
But what about the last one!?
Spending the night with a mysterious woman?
I didn’t know about that?!!
Wait!.
a mysterious woman?
He turned to look at Mavis, who had just been awakened —— could they be referring to Mavis?
Completely awake from his grogginess, Lincoln immediately thought of the source of the rumors.
But ——
“What a malicious and dirty rumor!”
Also, how is Mavis mysterious?
Furthermore, what do they mean by “exhausted and fell asleep early”?
It was already dawn when Victoria called!
Sleeping at that time, that’s actually considered late, okay?
“Has it been so many months since I last laid the law down that they think I’ve grown soft?” Lincoln clicked on the news, intending to find out which media outlet was spreading the rumors.
He had to teach them a lesson!
He indignantly clicked on the news and began reading it.
…
Only a minute later, he finished reading.
However, Lincoln was now somewhat torn.
Firstly, this article wasn’t actually problematic, it simply covered the events that unfolded in Victoria’s live stream yesterday.
Even that misleading headline was not their own words, instead, they clipped it from player forums and live stream comments.
Blacklisting and sanctioning them directly seemed a little intense.
Futhermore, similar news was simply flooding the internet —— the overseas media, in particular, had gone all out, making it much more outrageous than the domestic ones!
If he jumped out to blacklist and sanction them now, netizens might interpret it as a sign of guilt, as if he was trying to cover up the truth.
As for the real truth, it wasn’t easy to share it—unless he was willing to expose Mavis’s unique identity.
But that was impossible.
Only a handful of key individuals in Cloud Dream knew about Mavis’s identity, and Lincoln had absolutely no desire to reveal it to the public.
But!what should he do?
Lincoln found the situation quite a headache.
*
He wasn’t the only one with a headache.
On the other side, the Little Princess Camille was also bothered.
Last night, she was awakened by a text from Shuihua, who, despite having to juggle her schoolwork in her third-year of high school with her gaming time, still managed to quickly keep abreast of the online news.
Shuihua was fast to get the news.
Seeing these rumors, Shuihua’s immediate reaction was: “They are moving so fast!”
“Have they already shared a bed?”
If they have already shared a bed in reality, she didn’t dare to think about how far things had progressed in the virtual world!
Shuihua wanted to make a call and delve into the gossip immediately.
But she was afraid to interrupt her friend’s time, so she held back.
After enduring for fifteen long minutes, she couldn’t take it anymore.
She finally sent Camille a carefully worded text—
[You guys move fast!
You’re so bold!]
Camille, who was disturbed from her sleep by the text, was confused by Shuihua’s message.
After a few back-and-forths messages, the Little Princess finally figured out what was going on then, without needing to think, she knew that the person Lincoln was referring to was Mavis.
Aside from Lincoln, only Mavis would have the power to single out a player to receive misfortune in the virtual world.
—If the development team wanted to alter an individual player’s data, they would need to apply for temporary permission.
Of course, this was the evidence she thought of after confirming that Lincoln was talking about Mavis.
The reason she was sure it was Mavis was actually very simple— she too had slept with Mavis, both in the virtual world and in reality.
It was a very comfortable experience.
“That was Mavis, I was at home.”
“????” Shuihua was even more confused, “Mavis?
How did they end up sleeping together?”
“Well…
you can think of Mavis as Lincoln’s daughter.”
“Ah??” Shuihua exclaimed in surprise.
“Oh, never mind, go to sleep.
It’s already so late.” The Little Princess didn’t bother to explain further and sent Shuihua off to sleep.
However, she herself couldn’t sleep.
Because she had foreseen that after awakening the next day, many people would ask her about this—her parents, older sister, teacher, and co-workers at her company!it seemed inevitable.
Since they got together, even though they did not publicly announce it, they did not obscure their relationship either.
Camille going to Lincoln’s company wasn’t a one-time thing.
And just as anticipated, the next morning was exactly like this.
Not only did the Little Princess have to explain that it wasn’t herself in the rumours and awkwardly admit that she and Lincoln were not progressing that fast, but she also dealt with: “Have you two started raising a daughter together?”
As for Mavis’s real identity, hardly anyone asked.
—Lincoln had never explained before, and he clearly did not plan to explain now.
Pursuing more questions would only be seeking embarrassment.
As for the confused and eagerly gossiping netizens and media, they discussed fervently all morning without getting any closer to the truth.
Everyone thought Lincoln would come out and say something.
But Lincoln remained silent, making the whole internet anxious.
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It wasn’t until noon when Lincoln finally made a post.
But, instead of explaining the rumours or responding to the overseas players’ petition, he announced a plan whose name itself was outrageous—
[Mecha Mass Production Plan]!
And another plan that might not sound shocking at first, but was equally unexpected upon closer consideration—
[Cloud Dream Cup: National Humanoid Robot Fighting Competition]!
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