Necromancer chopping down trees

Chapter 156 Misunderstanding deepens
Dolly was invited by Gin to a separate room. No one else followed, and only the two of them sat facing each other.

"Your time and my time are both valuable, so I'll keep this short."

"If it's about the game, it's useless for you to come to me personally. The ownership belongs to the company."

Dolly and Gin stared at each other, not giving in.

Gin used the excuse of closing the curtains to avoid the first confrontation, he walked while taking a deep breath, adjusted himself and returned to his seat.

"We want to develop jointly with Penguin, and the focus is on the core technology of the game."

"If you're talking about source code, then we can't cooperate."

Gin frowned. The woman in front of him was really difficult to deal with.

Every time he said something, the other party could guess what he would say next, which made him very embarrassed.

"We are also discussing this matter with Wang Yue. If we cannot cooperate, we can only express our regret."

Gin pushed the tea in front of Dolly, applying further pressure.

"Negotiation?"

Dolly picked up the teacup, took a sip and put it down again.

She is now more convinced that Wang Yue is in the Star Group, but there is still no evidence.

"How's Fatty Cat? Will you guarantee food?"

"Don't worry, we will not treat potential partners unfairly, even if we have some minor frictions."

The two fell into a brief silence, and five seconds later they spoke at the same time, interrupting each other.

"That's it." "I have things to take care of."

Both sides showed awkward expressions, and Gin politely invited Dolly to leave.

After making sure Dolly was gone, Gin called his boss.

"Boss, we haven't found out why he came to our group. With such a large workload for game updates, the producer Wang Yue must be in Penguin, but our people haven't found him yet."

After Fat Cat’s incident, the misunderstanding between the two parties intensified. They both thought that Wang Yue was in the other company and temporarily stopped tracking and investigating Wang Yue.

On the other side, while the fat cat was sleeping, Kotonoha had already hand-made a assembled laptop 2.0.

"Laptops are a product of the last era. Although they are not as convenient as holographic projection, they are still easy to operate."

"Of course I know what this is. I'm just curious about how you made it."

Fat Cat looked at the cleaned-out room and began to feel sorry for the owner of the hotel.

She had used a laptop before and was familiar with the basic operations, but it was far inferior to a projector.

"It's open beta tomorrow, just make do with it for now and we'll talk about it after we get out."

Kotonoha made two and gave one to Fat Cat, while explaining how to operate this assembled version of the device.

After connecting the power supply, the exposed wires and copper pipes made Fat Cat a little scared, but after putting on kitchen rubber gloves, she gritted her teeth and began to learn how to operate it.

"Dinner has been delivered and is placed at the door."

The door of the room was locked, and only a small gap could be opened.

Outside the window is the scenery of the 30th floor. Even if Uncle Long is possessed, you can't jump down.

The two didn't know how long they would be trapped here, and the loose laptops in their hands might be their only entertainment in the future.

After some bumps and bruises, the game's public beta was carried out as scheduled according to the announced time.

Peripheral products have been sold in conjunction with the game promotion. The largest partner, Lucky Cola, has printed advertisements on the bottles. If you buy a Lucky Cola, you can also get a qualification code for the public beta.

In addition to those who obtained the public beta qualification by luck, the website also distributes and sells it directly to all Penguin members, and the 20,000 public beta qualification codes were snapped up.

But just one day before the public beta, a post suddenly appeared on a forum, claiming that the qualification code could be sold at a low price.

At first everyone thought it was a scam, until the first brave man was willing to be deceived on behalf of everyone, and then they found out that it was actually true.

Immediately, the posts on the forum were shared on major platforms, and before the official ban was triggered, 10,000 public beta test qualifications had been sold, making a net profit of one million.

Afterwards, mysterious websites appeared on major social platforms, following William’s guidance.

A fan website suspected to be "Heart of Noel" not only contains leaks of the internal beta test, but also some footage of the public beta test.

At the same time, the [William's Guidance] website provides free public beta qualifications. As long as the accuracy rate of answering questions exceeds 90%, you can enter the game public beta.

"Is this an official activity? Penguin is really sincere. They're taking the test before they even let us play the game. Is this considered as the first subject?"

"I think it's okay. There are still 20,000 free spots left. As long as I answer quickly enough, there's no way I won't qualify for the public beta test."

Of course netizens are happy to see free resources, the only one who is unhappy is Penguin Company.

Their quotas are given to partners, which are sold to players in disguise. This will cause dissatisfaction among buyers and be criticized by players who have qualified first.

"Did Wang Yue reply? What did he say?"

"Wang Yue said he was not aware of the incident and was not responsible for it."

"Then what does he mean?"

Dolly got angry at Gao Mu, and no one present dared to say a word.

Dolly's emotions have reached the breaking point these past two days, and no one dares to provoke her.

"I guess it was done by the other company. Maybe they left a backdoor during the last intrusion and mixed the qualification code into the server."

“Even the hash value has been changed. We can’t delete the players who joined later unless we re-issue the qualification code, but it’s too late.”

"So the other party waited until the last day to pay? This was not done for profit, but only to damage the fate of our company."

The technicians have concluded that someone left something in the game through technical means, so the Star Group, the only company in conflict with Penguin, will naturally be blamed.

They really couldn't imagine that the person who actually added the quota was in the game.

Wang Yue and Xiao Nuo were counting the first money they earned from the public beta and discussing the next plan.

"The server asked Fat Cat to buy it, but she never replied to my message."

"I have connected your account to the black market and added a browser specifically for you to view the black market."

"pretty."

Including the one million in contract revenue during the internal test, Wang Yue now has two million in his account.

If all this money is invested in purchasing servers, it would probably be enough to buy machines that can support tens of thousands of people online.

"I'll check tonight to see if there's any stock. I also need to find someone with technical skills to follow Fatty Cat, otherwise she won't be able to handle it alone."

After finishing most of the business emails, Wang Yue was already lying in the hotel.

The battle in the north has been completed. Humans have successfully crossed the iceberg and established a stronghold at the foot of the mountain, which will serve as a safe zone in the [Northern Snowfield] map.

Tomorrow Wang Yue will ride on horseback to the novice map [Northern Woods]. In addition to picking up a new batch of arriving players, he will also issue a wave of tasks to leave a good impression among the players.

(End of this chapter)