Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 708: Chapter 671: Are You Stuck Here with a BUG?

“You want to go up there?”

Henry’s shock was beyond belief, and he subconsciously repeated the questions one after another:

“On a rocket?”

“Into space?”

“Become an astronaut??”

He once thought that flying over Xiajing City on a large airship from a hundred years ago was an extremely far-fetched idea, but now he realized: For Lincoln, that was still child’s play!

Going to space?

What were they thinking!

In recent years, powerful countries like Daxia, America, and Europe have been vigorously developing aerospace technology.

Under this trend, the technology from various countries has developed rapidly, with frequent rocket launches, especially during the suitable launch seasons of autumn and winter, with two or three launches a month being the norm.

Daxia had already launched a meteorological satellite in early December, and there were two more launches scheduled, both with the task of “manned” missions.

One of them even had the mission of “spacewalk.”

This was obviously a major task that the whole country was paying attention to.

And now, Lincoln wanted to board one of those rockets, sit in the space capsule, and take a trip to space.

This…

“No way! Absolutely not!” Henry shook his head and refused outright.

“Why not?” Lincoln asked back with a puzzled expression.

— In fact, he was pretending not to understand. There was nothing to be puzzled about. He knew very well why Henry was rejecting him, but he couldn’t say it like that…

Henry quickly came up with a reason: “Space missions are not child’s play, requiring strong professional skills and targeted training.”

“What skills and training do I need? I can learn them – I’m a fast learner!” Lincoln confidently assured Henry while thumping his chest.

“Training is no problem either. I’ve been practicing martial arts for several months straight, and now my physical condition is at its peak in my life — there’s no problem!”

After completing the sensory data collection for “Chang’an”, although he was still practicing martial arts, he had become much more relaxed, and sometimes he would simply skip training if he didn’t feel like it.

If he dragged it on for another month, even with the game cabin maintaining his physical state, a decline in his physical condition might still be inevitable.

So participating in training now was just perfect.

But that wasn’t Henry’s intention…

After thinking for a moment, Henry changed the subject: “Every astronaut has to be well prepared and qualified to get a spot, and it isn’t easy.”

“That’s true.” Lincoln nodded his head.

But before Henry could sigh in relief, Lincoln continued to ask: “How much does a space mission cost? What if I sponsor one? All expenses will be on me, as long as I can be taken up there.”

“??” Henry was truly amazed.

He had seen sponsored rocket launches, but sponsoring one not for advertising or promoting technology, but for going to space themselves…

He had never seen such a thing before!

“It’s not easy to coordinate a launch schedule…”

No matter what Lincoln said, it was just impossible.

As they went back and forth, Lincoln lost patience and couldn’t help but expose Henry’s thoughts: “What, are you worried about safety?”

“…” Henry fell silent.

Of course, he couldn’t say it was unsafe since the rocket was about to be launched. Who would dare to say such inauspicious words at this critical moment?

In the end, he could only say helplessly: “Why bother going to space when everything is fine?”

Seeing Henry’s troubled expression, Lincoln felt somewhat sorry, as if he was being too pushy. So, he waved his hand and said, “Forget it, forget it, just pretend I didn’t say anything.”

Henry felt as if he had been pardoned, “I have to get the technology back as soon as possible, and we’ll talk later, talk later.”

After saying that, he turned to leave without dwelling on whether Lincoln had any requests or not.

But Lincoln began to talk to himself behind him:

“It seems the country is supporting the development of private aerospace technology, right?”

“It’s better to rely on oneself than others, so…”

“Should I establish an aerospace company?”

Just as Henry had turned around, his body twisted, and he spun back around—

“Please don’t! I’m scared enough of you as it is! I’ll go contact someone and ask about the situation for you.”

“Let me be clear, I can only ask for you, and I can’t guarantee it’ll work.”

“And no matter what, there’s no way you can slip in on this month’s flight schedule.”

As the words “hitch a ride” came out of his mouth, Henry himself felt it was utterly absurd!

Could someone really “hitch a ride” to space?

“All right, all right, no problem, thank you!” Lincoln thanked Henry repeatedly and saw him out of the company.

With mixed feelings that were hard to describe, Henry left Cloud Dream.

After saying goodbye to Lincoln and joining the four plainclothes guards, they left the park together.

But before they left the park, Henry tried to think it through-

It’s no longer the early days of space technology, and launch failures are rare.

After all, a single failure means billions of investments down the drain, not to mention many knock-on effects, a price nobody wants to bear, so every launch is carefully planned.

In terms of safety, it’s not as frightening as one might think.

Compared to letting Lincoln set up his own aerospace company and silently take the rocket to space, it seemed safer to find a way to solve this problem for him…

“Sigh, I shouldn’t have asked that one question!”

Henry lamented in his heart: “How troubled must I have been to let Lincoln think twice…”

*

As for Lincoln, he didn’t have that much mixed emotions. After sending Henry off, he ran to the resting room and went to sleep.

He slept until the end of the mid-rest time, waking up at two o’clock in the afternoon by his biological clock.

He logged into the virtual world diligently after dealing with some drowsiness and having lunch, going to the “Chang’an” development team’s world to get involved in the initial work.

At the beginning of game development, he would always be more vigilant to ensure that the game development would not deviate from the track.

However, just as he arrived in Chang’an City and hadn’t had a chance to see what the employees were working on, Lincoln spotted an unexpected figure-

“Cheryl? What are you doing here?”

Hearing Lincoln’s voice, Cheryl turned around and said naturally, “I’m a formal member of the ‘Chang’an’ project. Of course, I should be here!”

“?”

A question mark slowly appeared in Lincoln’s mind, “You’re a member of the ‘Chang’an’ project team? How come I don’t know about it??”

Cheryl calmly raised her hand, and two documents appeared in her hand, obviously prepared in advance.

“Here, this is my ‘Application to Join Chang’an Project Group’.”

“This is my ‘Confirmation to Join Chang’an Project Group’.”

Cheryl handed the two documents to Lincoln one by one.

Lincoln took them unconsciously, one in each hand, somewhat stunned.

“Are you trying to bug me??”

Lincoln did indeed say at the meeting, “Employees who want to join the ‘Chang’an’ project team can apply to their supervisors, and I, in principle, do not object.”

But he never expected that Cheryl would take advantage of this loophole, apply to herself, and then approve herself.

Can you even play like this?

“I followed the rules you set, and I didn’t miss a single step. Both the application and confirmation are over 1500 words! I’m very sincere!”

Never mind the “Application,” but she could also pad out 1500 words in the “Confirmation”?

Isn’t this stuff just a matter of signing “Agreed” and that’s it?

Lincoln looked at the ridiculous “Confirmation” in his hand and felt Cheryl’s seriousness and desire to some extent.

As for Lincoln, he usually spoilt his close acquaintances, so he skipped this question and continued to ask:

“Weren’t you saying before that you wanted to make a pet-related game? Why do you want to come to ‘Chang’an’ now? What are you planning to do?”

“My idea hasn’t changed!” Cheryl seized the opportunity to introduce her idea to Lincoln-

“I’m still making cats and dogs, but I’m doing it in Chang’an City, and I want to make lots of cats and dogs to make Chang’an City more vibrant!”

“I play with cats and dogs every day, and I know them super well. What I make will be very lifelike, and players will definitely like it!”

“You can also create a special collection achievement. Only those who pet all the cats and dogs in Chang’an can get it, something like [Master of Furry Friends].”

“And there’s more…”

“Wait, wait, wait!” Lincoln was stunned by the name of the achievement and quickly called for a halt.

“That’s enough, go ahead and do it, good luck.”

Putting a bunch of cute cats and dogs in the game will indeed add a lot of fun for the players, so why not add them.

Having said that, he was going to get to the real work-

Find Fred to arrange the “Organizational Skills Girl” thing.

But thinking of this, he suddenly stopped and turned back to look at Cheryl again.

“What’s wrong?” Cheryl was puzzled, “You agreed, you can’t go back!”

“It’s not about going back.” Lincoln shook his head, “I just wanted to ask…”

“Are you interested in designing a cat demon?”

“The kind that can transform into a beautiful girl?”