Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Since the launch of the Mirage, up to now.

For such a long time, there hasn’t had a proper login interface.

Once the device is started, the players would be thrown directly into the world of “Traveler of the Wind”.

Even binding the Cloud Dream account has to be done in the virtual world after logging in and pull up the operation panel.

Lincoln did have relevant designs, but back then, with only one game, creating a login interface seemed completely unnecessary.

Until now, players finally have a second virtual world to choose from, that Lincoln finally brings out this feature.

The update was quick, and it only took 5 minutes. The 5 million newly released Mirages just sold out in a flash simultaneously with the update completion.

Camille Victoria watched the Mirages get sold out in a lively manner, then, after exclaiming again, “As scary as this is,” she started up the updated Mirage.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself standing on a pure water surface. The calm water reflected her image clearly, and it could almost be used as a mirror.

The water surface extended infinitely in all eight directions, and she could not see the end.

Camille Victoria looked around in confusion, “Is this the update? There’s nothing?”

As soon as she finished speaking, two scenes appeared in front of her. One was the pink-tinged Sand Sea from “Traveler of the Wind,” the other was an ordinary modern room.

While the Sand Sea of “Traveler of the Wind” was certainly beautiful, Camille Victoria had seen enough of it. So, she chose the second room.

The scene disappeared, and the calm water beneath her feet began to move. The flowing water converged, rising little by little in front of Camille Victoria’s eyes until it formed a door as tall as her.

Through the clear water, she could vaguely see the other side of the door.

Camille Victoria stretched her hand cautiously to touch it but felt nothing.

Then she stepped through the Door of Flowing Water.

As soon as she walked out of the door, the gate made of flowing water disappeared.

Camille Victoria curiously touched her cloak and found no trace of water.

Looking around, she found herself standing at an entrance.

The carpet under her feet, the coat rack, shoe rack, and slippers beside her were all indistinguishable from a real-life house.

Camille Victoria walked in while explaining – she didn’t forget that she was still live streaming!

“It’s already obvious. That space full of water is something like a starting interface. There, we can choose a…” Camille Victoria stumbled a bit, and she could only guess, “A… game login interface?”

Camille Victoria nodded in satisfaction, thinking her description was spot-on, “There are two options because there are currently two games. When Cloud Dream releases new games in the future, there might be new scenes to choose from.”

While she was talking, she had reached the end of the entrance: “Next, it’s the classic room tour time! Let me show everyone my big house!”

However, when she looked eagerly, she was disappointed to see that the room only had the most basic furniture, bare walls, and boring tables, sofas, and chandeliers.

“What does this mean?” Camille Victoria asked, puzzled.

Fortunately, as she entered the living room, a new interface popped up:

“Customize Room?”

Camille Victoria clicked “confirm” without hesitation.

The customization interface popped up, and Camille Victoria immediately discovered that it had an astonishing degree of freedom!

Not only were there various decorations and furniture, but even the room’s structure, the floor material, wall color, clothes in the cloakroom – there were dozens of different options to customize!

She could even replace the walls with huge floor-to-ceiling windows on all four sides!

There were even more than ten different sceneries outside the window to choose from!

Camille Victoria got excited right away; this was basically like a whole new game, wasn’t it?!

Top-level mansions, given right after login?!

Cloud Dream is really generous!

Camille Victoria came to the cloakroom, picked a casual white T-shirt and jeans from the initial set of clothes, and easily switched from the inconvenient cloak.

Then, with a lot of confidence, she said to the audience in the live broadcast room, “You guys better watch closely! Today is the day I show off my amazing home decorating skills!”

Camille Victoria was indeed eager to enter the “Assassins’ Alliance” right away, but the temptation of “building a house entirely belonging to oneself in the virtual world” was too strong.

In reality, housing prices in Xiajing City are way too high! She could only rent a house and even had to share it with someone else.

—Although sharing with a good friend makes living together enjoyable.

But deep down, who wouldn’t lust after a big house? Especially when you can decorate this house precisely according to your ideal style!

She couldn’t wait to start designing her dream house.

In the live broadcast room, the majority of female viewers showed great interest in Camille Victoria’s activity and occasionally shared advice through comments.

As for those more competitive viewers who were eager to see the “Assassins’ Alliance” world, they temporarily “ran away from home” to check what other anchors were up to.

Compared to these homeless viewers, Yi’s audience in his live broadcast room were much luckier.

Yi didn’t get hung up on customizing the appearance of the room, he didn’t care about the look of the login interface!

He didn’t even bother looking at how many rooms there were, just glanced at the living room, followed the instructions to sit on the sofa, and chose[Login].

Login to the World — [Assassin’s league]!

Before logging in, there was a curious option to choose your “self-perceived gender” as either male or female.

The audience in the live broadcast room immediately filled the screen with comments saying “choose female” and “select female.”

But Yi simply didn’t bother, decisively choosing “male” instead.

After watching Assassin Mr.X’s impressive kills and getting killed, Yi once again ignored a lot of question mark comments and officially entered the game.

Are you kidding? What could he do if he doesn’t ignore them?

Explaining why bullets could turn corners? You ask me, who should I ask?

I want to know where I could learn that too!

After entering the game, Yi put on a top-level pulling and tugging performance for the audience in his live broadcast room, engaging in a verbal battle with his NPC girlfriend.

As always, he emerged victorious, and watched the virtual girlfriend walk to the bathroom, inadvertently showing her good figure beneath her sleepwear. Yi remained unmoved, silently watching the bathroom door lock.

Soon, the sound of running water came from the bathroom.

Only then did Yi get up with a smile on his face and explained to everyone, “I’ve tested this in the closed beta; there’s no point in trying anything, I bet she’s stronger than you, even when you level up! So, her entering the bathroom should be unstoppable unless you get inside before her.”

“I’m pretty curious about this: if I went in to take a shower first, would she come in and join me?” Yi wondered aloud, “Anyway, I asked all the closed beta test players about their opening moves, and this blonde girlfriend went into the bathroom without exception.”

“But we’ll have other chances to test this later; let’s get back to the main topic.” Yi continued to show off his experience as a closed beta test player, “I’ve tried this before; don’t underestimate the bathroom door just because it looks thin. Hitting it for 10 minutes with a table lamp won’t break it.”

Yi ignored the question marks filling the screen and the questions about “what exactly did you do during the beta test?” and continued to explain to the audience.

“I know, there’s a possibility that this is the setting, and the door is just indestructible. But during the next two days of testing, I overturned this idea.”

“Because I didn’t find a single completely indestructible item—not one! Even steel street lights can get knocked crooked, and concrete roads can be blasted into holes. So, I seriously suspect that the door’s durability is simply set very high, and it can actually be destroyed.”

Yi looked around the room, “But here’s the problem: to break the door, a table lamp definitely isn’t enough, but there’s no better weapon in this room.” He glanced outside the window, “Go outside and find something? No, I can’t leave the room randomly. Because she might finish her shower and go to work in ten or so minutes. The door will be open then; there’s no point in breaking it! So, is there any way to obtain a powerful door-breaking weapon without leaving the room at all?”

“Of course, there is!” Yi’s smile turned wild, “That is — Call someone over!”