613 A Tour of Penglai City (1/2)

Wei Wendong followed the tiny mermaid guide and looked at the clock on the screen at the massive central tower.

12:10

After hesitating for a moment, he called out the menu, messaged his teammates who planned to enter the scenario and asked them to wait a moment. But when he opened his friend list, he discovered that the professional players from Kings already messaged him.

”Captain, can we go into the scenario ten minutes later? The helmet system just updated. Let me try to figure it out.”

”Shadow, I need to go to the washroom. Wait for me. I'll be five minutes!”

”Captain, did you see Future Technology's advertisement? Is it really an ad and not a new game they made?”

Wei Wendong forced a smile.

These guys... the legendary scenario was about to start and they all dropped the ball at the same time.

But then his face immediately turned red. As someone who was about to message them to delay the scenario, his words were not convincing at all.

He took a moment to think before he messaged the group and delayed the scenario by half an hour.

The reason being: Some teammates can not arrive to scenario on time due to real life reasons, the scenario entering time has be delayed by half an hour.

Ding-

The message was successfully sent.

Just as he was about to close the system menu, a message from his friend list popped up.

Wei Wendong opened it and saw it was a video question from Yue Hui. He was a friend he met through the game playing the summoner class. Because they got along, they met a few times offline and became friend in real life. He later became part of Kings Club.

Yue Hui was just a casual player; a boss of a company in real life. Other than having better equipment, his level and skill was mediocre.

”Old Wei, what do you think?” The moment the video message connected, Yue Hui immediately asked.

”What can I think?” Wei Wendong rolled his eyes and laughed. ”I'm used to Future Group's ridiculous technologies.”

Although he sounded like he was untouched, he was still stunned.

”There are presale buildings, are you not going to take a look?”

”I can't afford it! A house here probably is at least in the millions range. I'm just taking a look out of curiosity, perhaps I will visit in the future.”

”Eh? This is not something Wei Million in our clan said,” Yu Hui joked, ”ten million is at most half of your annual salary.”

The news of Kings Boss signing Shadow King at a hefty price of 20 million created a big splash in the professional scene. At first, they thought the investment was not worth it since twenty million was too much. But they had to agree later that the boss had the foresight.

It was a worldly MMORPG.

100 million active players globally!

Just in half a year, Shadow King used his superb gaming sense and experience through the internal test to win over 30 million in profits for Kings! Nothing else, and just in the monthly PVP competition without level restriction, the top ten players' ID could include the club's name and sponsor.

The ad placement could even influence the stock price of a public company!

In this digitalized era, if executed properly, intellectual property is money.

Of course, that is another topic.

”Nah, you make more money through your business and you can spare change to buy something here. I only know how to play games. I'd be beggar if I went to a foreign country.”

”Xin is not considered a foreign country, there are more and more Hans going there, you can just pretend you went to Guangzhou. And playing the game is the same everywhere. I plan to buy a place there since they said you could request a refund at any time.” Yu Hui smiled.

”I'll consider it.”

After ending the call, Wei Wendong began to consider his friend's suggestion seriously. But after given it some thought, it would be too rushed of a decision. Buying a house was something related to him forming a family and it must be well thought out. Now that his savings were enough to purchase a small mansion in Wanghai, it was not necessary to live overseas at all.

Although he admitted that the futuristic style of the city did attract someone young like him.

He followed Xiao Yu on the main path. However when Wei Wendong scanned his surroundings and felt somewhat lost.

Just like what Future Group promoted, the place was highly futuristic, and because of this, the hologram projections and buildings overwhelmed him.

Xiao Yu saw that he was lost, flew to his ear, and whispered.

”Any tourist coming into Penglai can obtain digitalized glasses. Because we are currently in virtual reality, the glasses have been hidden by us. If there is a need, you can call it out through the system menu.”

Based on Xiao Yu's instructions, Wei Wendong selected the glasses icon in the menu. Light particles began to gather in his hand before a pair of glasses formed in his palm.

Wei Wendong played with the glasses before putting it on his nose.

It was light, the lenses were thin, and wearing it didn't feel like anything.

The sight stopped at the map and a scene that shocked him appeared. Light blue particles formed a path underneath his feet and extended to the target he selected on the map.

He blankly stared at the cursor on the ground, took off the glasses, and the cursor disappeared. He put it back on and the cursor reappeared.