Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 4: Chapter 4: NetDragon’s Counterattack

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The next day, early in the morning, NetDragon released a video using their official account.

Media that had already been contacted and various big influencers quickly shared the video as soon as it was released.

Netizens had just finished mocking the self-unaware college student last night, and they were looking forward to NetDragon’s response.

Now that the response has arrived, they couldn’t wait to watch the video.

They were eager to see how NetDragon would crush this arrogant student.

The video begins with a beautiful female employee, who introduces herself as the assistant director of the R&D department, and she will be taking the audience on a tour of NetDragon’s R&D center.

The camera follows the beautiful lady, and with her introduction, we are taken into NetDragon’s R&D center.

“This is one of our R&D centers, with over 3,000 core R&D personnel, including over 500 doctoral degree experts. We have six other R&D centers across the country, all of which are equally impressive.”

“NetDragon invests tens of billions in R&D each year, with an annual growth rate of over 10%. We do not set limits on the recruitment of top technical talents, and we welcome talented individuals to join us.”

The audience follows the camera on the tour of NetDragon’s R&D center.

Various advanced-looking equipment, colorful laboratories, professional R&D personnel…

Every aspect conveys one message — “Professional”! This fully demonstrates NetDragon’s strength in scientific research.

Finally, the female staff member concludes with a message: “We have noticed that some friends on the internet have doubts about our scientific research capabilities. We hope that this demonstration will boost their confidence.”

“Experience has taught us that dreams detached from practical scientific research are often delusions. Technological development must be grounded and cannot be achieved through shortcuts. Of course, we encourage passion for scientific research and technology, and we sincerely hope that this passion will bear fruit.”

Without a doubt, NetDragon’s Public Relations Department has been clever this time.

They did not directly attack Lincoln, as doing so would make people feel that they are condescending and narrow-minded, which would be detrimental to the company’s friendly image.

So they took a different approach, showcasing their own investment and strength in scientific research.

In this way, the audience will subconsciously make comparisons:

The technology Lincoln had was not just one generation ahead of NetDragon’s, but eight generations.

NetDragon brought 20,000 archers and 3,000 grassland warriors on horseback for the battle, looking indeed like a formidable force.

But the problem was that Lincoln brought a Tu-160 strategic bomber!

The only limitation might be that they are scattered so far apart that he couldn’t kill them all with one bombing run; he might have to make several trips.

War? What a joke!

At the moment, Lincoln hadn’t even seen the video because his Tu-160 strategic bomber… No, I mean, his artificial intelligence programming was finally completed!

When Lincoln woke up, he saw a pink-haired, two-headed cartoon girl sleeping in the middle of his desktop screen, her head surrounded by “zzz” signs. Her blanket was disheveled, as if she hadn’t slept very well.

But Lincoln knew very well that it wasn’t because artificial intelligence needed sleep.

It was because the programming had just been completed, and he hadn’t had time to assign her tasks yet. He hadn’t given her access to the camera and recording equipment or permission to connect to the Internet.

In essence, she knew nothing about the outside world and was probably just putting on this sleeping act because she had nothing to do and was bored.

Lincoln quickly washed up and sat down at his computer. Instead of giving her the necessary permissions right away, he opened the core code again to double-check that he still had the highest authority and that all the checks and balances were in place, ensuring no errors.

An unrestricted, powerful artificial intelligence is terrifying, especially in an era where the Internet is widespread but defense measures are limited.

He had no doubt that the seemingly harmless, soft, and cute girl could easily wreak havoc on the world, possibly even causing the Internet to regress by ten years.

After carefully verifying that everything was in order, he began to grant permissions, starting with access to the camera, recording equipment, and microphone.

Then, he watched as the cartoon character first stretched its body, then rubbed its eyes while sitting up, looked in his direction, and finally spoke in a soft, just-woke-up voice: “Hmm? Master, are you awake? Is there something you need me to do?”

???!

God knows how Lincoln heard the “just-woke-up” haziness from the synthesized electronic voice!

Wait! What’s the deal with this whole waking-up animation?

Do you really have that much computing power to spare?!

This second-hand computer is already under a lot of pressure; don’t make it harder by rendering real-time animations!

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