Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 741: Chapter 702: Found You!

Lincoln initially didn’t pay attention to this perverse trend until he noticed Mavis staring blankly at the comment section.

He curiously leaned over to take a look and found a comment that had bewildered Mavis─

[My master has already signed a Lover Contract with me, ignoring his wife! So happy! Boss Lin, tonight my master invites you for dinner (I’m the main course), you must come.]

“???”

Lincoln was confused for a moment, thinking, what kind of dirty talk is this? Are there no girls left in Daxia that you care about?

But soon, he realized that he had misunderstood the person.

The person wasn’t from Daxia, their IP address showed: this was a netizen from Baekje.

“Isn’t this more Izumo’s style?” Lincoln was puzzled for a moment, but he quickly figured it out, “Maybe that’s the happiness of a Chaebol.”

“As for inviting me to ‘dinner’… perhaps it’s a special socializing method for the Baekje Chaebol?”

He probably understood why Mavis was lost in thought, she must be thinking: “This person’s master wants to do bad things to Mavis’s master!”

Speechlessly, he patted Mavis’s pink head, “What kind of messy things are you thinking about… just block her.”

“Alright!” Mavis quickly blocked the person, but still feeling unsatisfied, she asked, “Do you want me to ban her Cloud Dream account too?”

“And her so-called master, Mavis can find and ban them too!”

“That’s not necessary…” Lincoln patted Mavis’s head to comfort her, “It hasn’t reached the point of banning her from logging into the virtual world.”

“But under this announcement and my post, delete all the strange sexual quirk remarks that mention me.”

Such cult-like sexual quirks were fine within their own circles, but coming over to stir trouble with him was a bit too much.

So, Mavis swiftly took action, and in a blink of an eye, the comment section was cleaned up.

With no more eye-popping content to watch, the netizens finally calmed down a bit.

The discussion environment normalized, and some genuinely valuable topics finally appeared in the front row:

“Thanks, long-distance couples are paying homage to Boss Lin!”

“You can get divorced in the virtual world on January 1st every year, today is the 23rd, so there’s only one week left, is this week the trial marriage period?!”

“The Lover Contract only allows for two breakups a year, isn’t that too few? I got dumped eight times just last year.”

“I have five boyfriends! Cloud Dream, aren’t you trying to kill me?!”

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Some other questions, however, were full of controversy and debate, for example─

“I have a question: after getting intimate in the virtual world, physically you are still a virgin, but mentally obviously not. How should this be counted?”

Since this involves conservatism and openness, loyalty and practicality, blind dates and deception… and so on, netizens had quite a heated discussion under this comment.

Everyone agreed: being able to take the final step in the virtual world greatly reduces the sunk cost of love.

But is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Some people think: this will lead to a decline in social morals, and people will treat physical relationships more casually.

Others think: it’s a good thing with more pros than cons, especially for adolescents, as it can prevent irreversible consequences from happening.

This issue has always been a hot topic for internet debates and often developed into conflicts between men and women, escalating until it’s out of control.

However, this time Mavis was keeping an eye on the situation, and anyone who tries to provoke a confrontation between men and women, regardless of which side they’re on, was directly blocked.

This barely ensured a rational discussion environment.

However, matters like this can’t be resolved just by talking, because neither side can be considered wrong, nor can they convince each other.

In the end, they’ll have to leave it to time to attest.

Interestingly, someone followed this train of thought and raised an even trickier question:

“What do you guys think: Will sales of contraception-related products drop significantly in the next few years? Damn, I have to clear out my Human Fortune & Health stocks tomorrow!”

[Human Fortune & Health], the leading stock in Daxia’s condom industry.

This guy’s words reminded the netizens, and they all started checking the funds and stocks they had purchased to see if they would be affected.

Not only the contraception industry but also adult toys, couples’ products, and other related industries would be affected.

No matter how significant the actual impact is, as long as everyone thinks there’s an impact, the stock price will definitely be affected!

When it comes to their wallets, the focus of the topic shifts immediately.

Apart from that, another topic was also lively─

“I just tried it out, and it turns out only heterosexual couples can form a contract? But I really love Nina so much, don’t our love between girls deserve it?”

Under this comment, the debate was quite intense, too.

At first, there were more objections and criticisms, but it didn’t take long for a large number of supporters to emerge, even many foreign language comments.

In the past, the mixing of languages from multiple countries was rarely seen on the Daxia Internet — because Chinese is so prevalent in East and South Asia, and there aren’t many languages used on the Chinese Internet, despite the many countries.

It is only in the Cloud Dream virtual community, spanning the eastern and western hemispheres, where such excitement exists.

Now this phenomenon is rarely seen on Spiritual Rhinoceros.

Many overseas netizens even replied, “In our country, same-sex marriage is legal, so why is it not allowed in the virtual world?”

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Lincoln and Cloud Dream never appeared, allowing all netizens to freely discuss and collide opinions.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Nishino Chizuru closed the external link, opened her friend list, and sent a message to Camille Victoria:

“Senior Schoolgirl, have you seen the news about the Lover Contract? I have an idea I really want to test, but I can’t do it alone. Can you help me?”

Camille Victoria quickly replied, “Okay, but wait a bit, I have something to do first, and I’ll call you when I’m done.”

“Thank you, Senior Schoolgirl! You go ahead and take care of your things first!” Queenie thanked her repeatedly and happily ran to the cloakroom to pick out clothes.

Camille Victoria’s reply was somewhat hurried because she indeed had important things to do.

Last night, she teamed up with three strangers in the game and played until very late, only going to sleep after being kicked offline by the Anti-addiction System.

After playing for so long, she naturally made significant progress — she managed to upgrade her light crossbow three times and her armor once.

During the last upgrade, she was also lucky to gather a special ore and a mutated plant, which she used to add a [Poison] attribute to her light crossbow.

Each shot now had a chance to poison the target, causing continuous damage and reduced defense.

However, according to the item’s description, both the ore and the plant only came into existence due to the pollution of the Poison Water by Phase Willow.

To upgrade the poison further, it was necessary to get closer to Phase Willow and obtain even stronger toxic materials.

This meant that she needed to upgrade her armor’s [Poison Resistance], which unavoidably slowed her progress.

Camille Victoria’s goal today was to head to Dinosaur Island after the Anti-addiction Time ended.

However, after getting out of bed and logging in at 2:00 PM, she decided to take on the Fire Dragon as well.

The destruction of Metropolis deeply shocked her — the marks of battle hadn’t been restored since the map reset once a day, and after being ravaged six times, the high-rise buildings in Metropolis had almost ceased to exist. The remains of buildings and traces of melted steel and fire were everywhere.

After winning the battle and obtaining a [Dragon Pearl], Camille Victoria finally learned about the existence of the Dragon Girl.

In the moment she heard the Fire Dragon shouting, a vivid image appeared in her mind — a young girl with gradient purple hair jumping around in a pile of giant pandas, her eyes filled with joy.

That hair color was quite rare, not to mention the dragon horns on her head — Camille Victoria had originally thought they were just a hairpin, but now she realized they might be the [Dragon Girl]’s horns!

Of course, she couldn’t be sure.

After all, it was just a glimpse, and it might be the parents of some trendy family who dyed their child’s hair and bought her that hairpin, right?

The amusement park was filled with all kinds of strange accessories.

So, Camille Victoria didn’t rush to tell others to avoid confusion and searched the amusement park by herself.

However, due to the constant expansion, the amusement park had grown to an astonishing size, with an enormous area.

Moreover, the presence of giant pandas everywhere attracted users from all over the world to bring their families and play, making the park’s crowd at its maximum capacity all day.

Finding a little girl who might still be running around in such a crowded environment was not easy.

Not to mention how sometimes the giant pandas would run over to her, cling to her leg, and beg to be petted.

How could Camille Victoria resist that?

From time to time, she would stop and play with the pandas that actively approached her.

As a result, her search efficiency was extremely low, and she only spotted a hint of pink and purple in the crowd when Queenie’s message came.

After replying to Queenie hurriedly, Camille Victoria closed the panel, went through the crowd, and approached the little girl.

Instead of revealing herself, she carefully followed the girl and observed her for a while, until she was one hundred percent sure that the cute horns on the girl’s head were not a hairpin but real dragon horns!

No “kidnapper” was found nearby.

So, Camille Victoria braced herself, lunged towards the adorable little lolita and the panda cub in her arms, and hugged them tightly.

“Found you!!”