Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

However, just as he opened the Teleportation Gate, he suddenly realized something:

“Wait… I’ve already worked all morning and have to work overtime tonight to promote, that’s a full day’s work.”

With that in mind, Lincoln immediately decided to leave early.

Finding Mavis and Camille Victoria still chatting, Lincoln told them he was leaving work.

Winter had arrived in Xiajing City, and Lincoln had no desire to do any outdoor activities, but the existence of the Virtual Chang’an project meant that he had to do it.

The rare sunny day with no cold wind was also rare.

So, he decided to go to the horse farm.

Mavis followed Lincoln out of the company, and Camille Victoria logged out to prepare for the horse farm as well.

Now, Yunmeng was no longer in its infancy, and the freedom enjoyed by Camille Victoria, the intern, was almost on par with Lincoln’s.

Whenever Lincoln went to the horse farm, as long as time permitted, Little Princess would also run over to join him.

However, this time when Lincoln arrived at the horse farm, he saw Little Princess wearing the Eight Sides Headband, and after greeting Lincoln, she looked around for Mavis.

But no matter how hard she looked, she couldn’t find her, so she turned to Lincoln and asked, “Mavis isn’t here?”

Lincoln looked around puzzled and found that Mavis had disappeared at some point.

He shook his head in confusion, “She’s not here, maybe there’s some new gossip, and she’s rushed off to watch the excitement.”

With that, he removed the headband and entered the horse farm with the princess.

His riding skills had improved rapidly, and galloping across the flat grass at the horse farm was no problem.

As for more complex environments, he’d tried them in the virtual world, but even though the horses in the virtual world were very obedient, he’d still been thrown off several times.

So, he wasn’t bold enough to try it in reality.

After all, the cost in reality was too great – he could easily cripple himself if he fell with bad luck.

Caution was a must.

…

By the time he left the horse farm, he had three more teammates for the evening:

Little Princess, Shuihua, and Lance.

While he practiced riding, a large number of anchors left messages under the live broadcast notice:

“Could I please have a spot? I am the number one sniper in the server!”

“40-hour professional pilot reporting in!”

“Pick me! Don’t you like JK? Lucky me, I am a white silk JK twin ponytail loli voice!”

…

Camille Victoria, Super Tomato, Yi, and Yelang also received numerous requests from their live streaming platforms’ anchors, hoping to join the team and play together.

These anchors not only kept sending gifts, but also used various conspicuous messages to show their loyalty:

“My gun skills are spot on; I won’t hold you back!”

“I’ll play at any position, absolutely cooperative! I’ll carry a medical bag and heal you the whole way!”

“I’ll willingly let you take the lead! I can charge in the Dare To Die Squad or take bullets as a meat shield, extremely useful!”

…

Some small-time anchors, thinking they might not get a chance, decided instead to be commentators and live stream Lincoln’s broadcast during the event.

After all, Lincoln’s live stream had never restricted re-streaming.

*

Under such a lively atmosphere, by 18:50 in the evening when Lincoln started his live broadcast room, there were already more than 34 million audience members gathered in advance!

These included not only Daxia’s audience, but also many viewers from around the world.

“Good evening everyone, oh, and to the overseas players, hello.”

Now used to the big stage, Lincoln greeted the audience without any nervousness.

“Let’s not waste any more time and get right to it.”

He logged into the battle room of Battlefield and immediately started inviting people.

First, he invited the four anchors and intern Camille, then let them invite whomever they wanted.

Everyone wasted no time and started inviting others.

Intern Camille, of course, invited her best friend Shuihua first.

Shuihua was already familiar with Lincoln, so when she saw him, she naturally greeted him. However, before he could even respond, a cute girl dressed in a sailor uniform with twin ponytails suddenly rushed over.

He did not know what happened, but she grabbed Lincoln’s arm and yelled, “Big brother!”

Lincoln immediately felt goosebumps and shook his arm to break free.

“What are you doing?” Lincoln asked, very surprised.

The girl blinked innocently and pointed at Yelang, saying, “He told me to.”

“? ? ?” Yelang was still trying to process what happened, “? ? ? Liu Winter Melon, you are… a girl? ? ?”

“No, I’ve seen your photo, and you’re clearly a guy!”

Hearing this, Lincoln widened his eyes and subconsciously moved further away from the “girl.”

But the girl with the nickname [Louis] said, “That’s me in male clothing! What do you think, am I handsome? It’s not worse than your cross-dressing, right?”

“You, you, you…” Yelang’s pointing hand trembled uncontrollably, “You deceived my feelings! I’ve always treated you as a brother!”

……

Lincoln couldn’t stand to look anymore and covered his eyes, moving away from the two-person drama.

Soon, the recruitment segment was over.

Everyone was polite and didn’t push too hard to recruit people, ultimately gathering only 15 people.

Lincoln didn’t waste time on introductions and greetings, and directly walked towards the National Warfare door to start the match.

At this moment, countless players from Daxia, Russia, and Germany started their matches simultaneously.

It was now the golden time for Daxia, and it was also noon and afternoon in Europe, so there were plenty of players.

The matching was almost instant.

But to everyone’s surprise, the opponent was neither Russia nor Germany, but—

“Italy???”

“What’s going on? A BUG?”

“No way, the boss got slapped in public in front of thirty million people? How can this be?”

“Hahaha, I’m dying of laughter! Someone’s going to lose their job!”

“It’s no wonder it’s Lincoln. Just a few minutes into the broadcast, and the show’s effects have never stopped!”

……

The audience in the live broadcast room felt the wait was worth it.

Even the team channel became a bit awkward.

Only Lincoln remained calm and explained to everyone, “This is not a BUG, it’s a game mechanic.”

Without waiting for the audience to complain, he explained the mechanic in detail:

“When some player teams have a high winning rate in a short time, they may be matched against opponents in a higher war zone with their ‘national team.’”

“For Italian players in the T3 War Zone to cross such a big gap to match against us, it means that among their 100 people, there is at least one team of more than 10 people with explosive fighting power and consecutive victories.”

“So, get your spirits up and be careful not to get overturned.”

“National Warfare has hidden points too?” Super Tomato asked in shock.

“Yes, but due to the increased difficulty of cross-war zone battles, they won’t lose points if they lose, and they will get three times the National Warfare points if they win. So strictly speaking, this is actually a consecutive victory reward mechanism.”

“Alright, let’s go in!”

As the teleportation was completed, the competition map appeared before their eyes: [Bloody Banquet].

Unlike desert, mountain, and trench maps, this is an urban battlefield map.

Moreover, the overall architecture is relatively well-preserved, especially the C point in the center of the map, which is a complete, magnificent ancient castle.

Very beautiful.

But also very deadly.

Because your enemy might come from any direction, it is very difficult to hold onto it.

However, points A and E are too close to both sides’ bases and too far from the adjacent strongholds, making them very difficult to capture.

And points B and D are too flat and exposed, with almost no objects for cover, completely exposed to the firepower at point C.

As long as point C is controlled, these two strongholds can be easily captured.

These factors determine that the most complex point in the terrain, C, is also the most critical position on the entire map!

So, in almost every match, this ancient castle becomes a meat grinder-like place where players from both sides continue to fight and kill each other.

At the sight of this map, Yi couldn’t help but say, “My scalp suddenly feels itchy.”

As soon as he said this, several people immediately expressed the same feeling:

“Now that you mention it, I’m a little itchy too.”

“I’m gonna blow up these rooftop-crawling Spider-Men!”

“Don’t worry, be quick, and grab the rooftop first. Maybe it’ll be us who get up there, and then we can give the opponents a scalp massage?”

……

Within a span of three days, this map had formed a unique culture: rooftop climbing.

Climb on the roof, set up a gun, eyes filled with open battlefield, and focus on shooting heads for kills.

This resulted in many players feeling itchy on their scalps as soon as they arrived here…

As a result, the ancient castle’s rooftops were often bombarded with heavy bombers.

Listening to their conversation, Lincoln suddenly came up with a great idea:

“If I ride a horse into the ancient castle, wouldn’t it be one slash per kill, just mowing down enemies?!”