The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 362: Real or fake dream machine? Still making empty promises?!
The audience saw a group of staff carrying things onto the stage, some were making the beds, some were connecting wires.

After finally finishing the work, some people just lay down.

Everyone was a little confused.

But after hearing what Xu Meng said, the confusion and bewilderment immediately disappeared:
"This is the beginning of the new life!"

"You're amazing! You even organized a press conference in a dream. Why didn't you just say you were playing games in your dream?!"

"I feel sorry for the employees who cooperated with Boss Xu in the play."

"Are there any reporters here? After the press conference is over, can we interview the employees lying there? I'm curious about their mental states!"

……

Everyone felt that Xu Meng was up to something again.

There is no sense of "quiet" in the barrage.

But after all, the scene was close, and everyone still gave Xu Meng face, and the whispered discussions at the scene gradually disappeared.

Until the whole audience was silent.

Almost no one thought Xu Meng was serious.

But even if you are watching a magic show, you still have to cooperate with the magician's command and guidance. Now that Boss Xu is performing the show for everyone personally, you must cooperate 100%!

As everyone watched quietly, Xu Meng took out the [Sleeping Patch] that she had shown before and stuck it on the back of the neck of the five employees on the bed - from No. 5 to No. 1.

After that, the five people put on earplugs, lay down comfortably, and waited for sleepiness to come.

The large LED display behind Xu Meng turned into a raft floating on the choppy blue sea, like hypnotic white noise.

Time passed by like this minute by minute.

In the pin-drop silence, the audience gradually felt that things were becoming ridiculous.

The live broadcast of Zhumeng’s product launch event attracted at least tens of millions of netizens around the world.

As a result, millions of people are doing nothing but watching five Dream Builder employees sleeping? ?
How can you hold a press conference like this?
There was a very low whispering sound at the scene again.

Many people even took out their mobile phones and planned to join in the online complaints.

Fortunately, we didn’t have to wait too long.

——After learning about the existence of the [Dream Machine], these five volunteers hardly slept well for several days and were crazy about this new machine every day and night.

In order to cooperate with the boss's arrangement, I took the initiative to stay up for a long time yesterday.

Now I fall asleep very quickly!
In less than five minutes, a green indicator light lit up on the side of the silver-white [brain wave signal collector] that covered half of their faces.

This means that they have successfully entered the dream.

In the scene behind Xu Meng, the camera quickly zooms in.

Finally locked onto that thin raft.

The next second, a person with ID [001] suddenly appeared on the raft.

He lowered his head and clenched his fists, then looked around at the ocean.

Then, before he could do anything, 002 also appeared on the raft.

Then 003, 004, and 005 appeared one by one.

Finally, the five people gathered on the raft, picked up the hooks, fishing rods and barrels on the raft, and started to work on their own.

Only then did netizens realize that the picture on the big screen was not the hypnotic white noise, but the [ocean trip] in which Ciri hid the Easter egg.

"I believe that players will not feel unfamiliar with this ocean."

Xu Meng spoke again.

"Yes, this is part of the dream building game world!"

"Now, as you can see! After falling asleep, these five people successfully logged into the game world created by DreamCraft."

"And the equipment they are using is the most important product of this conference—"

Xu Meng walked over to several sleeping employees and gestured to the audience to look at the silvery-white brain wave signal collectors on their heads.

His voice gradually rose.

The audience looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to announce the name of the product.

But at this critical moment——

"Ugh~~~~"

A strong sound of vomiting suddenly interrupted Xu Meng.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw that of the five brothers on the big screen, [002] and [003] were lying on the edge of the raft in pain, vomiting wildly into the sea!

"I...I feel like I'm seasick..." the guy with ID [002] said painfully.

Before he could finish his words, he fell onto the side of the raft and vomited violently again.

But Lu Ming is a relatively traditional producer with relatively conservative thinking.

Unlike the lunatics in the development team of "Lord of War", they even made excrement.

The game content produced by Lu Ming does not contain any unclean things like vomit.

But the [Dream Machine] is too special. The characteristics of the "dream" will add some things that were not originally in the game.

Just like now——

The two guys lay on the edge of the raft, spitting mosaics into the sea.

This mosaic was not originally there, but was urgently added by Xiao Meng who had been following the live broadcast.

After Xu Meng was silent for a moment, he was so speechless that he laughed out loud.

Finally, he shook his head helplessly and said, "Xiao Meng, just throw them both to Mansheng City."

Xiao Meng immediately responded to Xu Meng.

The five people on the raft quickly became three, and the two unlucky ones who were seasick were teleported by Xiao Meng to the central square of the sprawling city. The three people who were not seasick were stunned for a few seconds, and then received a reminder from Xiao Meng.

So they continued to pick up fishing rods and hooks, some to fish, some to salvage supplies.

Xu Meng continued the previous topic as if nothing had happened -

"The most important product of this conference! The joint product of computer technology and brain science technology, jointly created by DreamWorks and the National Academy of Sciences——"

"Dream Machine!!!"

"Just like its name, this is a device that creates dreams for you!"

"We have gone a step further and created a bridge connecting the dream world and the game world, allowing players to enter the game world through dreams!"

"With the Dream Machine, you will be able to get a 100% immersive gaming experience!"

"Because what provides you with experience is no longer just codes and signals, but also your own brain!"

“There is no more amazing creation than the brain for creating fantasies and experiences.”

"And now, we have successfully allowed the brain to join this creative journey with infinite possibilities!"

"Although this journey has just begun, everyone, please believe me—"

“A great journey is just ahead!”

Xu Meng spoke very passionately.

But the audience's reaction was not so enthusiastic.

Not even as excited as when he announced [Civilization Jet].

Because everyone thinks: this thing can't possibly be true.

It would be the same even if Xu Meng used the banner of the National Academy of Sciences - he has a strong backing and no one seems to be able to do anything to him even if he insists on talking nonsense.

Some netizens have even analyzed it:

"It was actually a video recording, right? In order to make it look real, they even deliberately created an accident to interrupt Xu Meng's speech. What a good intention!"

"What good intentions? Clearly they have evil intentions!"

"I understand now. The order of a press conference should be like this: real, real, fake, fake! Two real products followed by two fake products!"

"It's fake! You can't fool me."

"If I can play games in my dreams, then I don't need to sleep anymore. Doesn't this go against human physiology? I find it hard to believe this is true."

"Common sense tells me: if this thing really exists, it has long been hidden by the state. How could it be taken out so easily?"

"Boss Xu's acting skills have improved. What he said sounded like the truth."

"Oh, if only it were true!"

……

The audience was confused by Xu Meng’s previous weird and half-real and half-fake products, and now they didn’t believe it at all.

Even though Xu Meng performed very hard——

"In order to allow more players to experience this epoch-making product firsthand, we will randomly select 200 lucky viewers from the on-site audience and the live broadcast room audience to come to Dream Building to experience it."

"At the same time, Dream Building will also hold an [Ocean Survival Competition], and the top 100 players who survive the longest can also participate in this offline event!"

“In addition, the top 100 players in the [Sky Arena] rankings can also join this offline event!”

Xu Meng took her "performance" too seriously.

Many players who originally didn't believe it at all began to doubt it.

"Could it be that... this thing is real?"

After Xu Meng really started the live lottery and the live broadcast room also launched the barrage lottery, the number of people who believed and those who did not believed had become fifty-fifty.

The two sides began to argue fiercely.

Even though a player with quick information managed to catch two seasick guys with IDs [002] and [003] in the central square of the Sprawling City and posted their group photo to Mengjin, the controversy could not be settled.

——After all, no one can prove that the guys with these five digital IDs are the five people lying on the stage.

……

As Xu Meng's lucky draw ended, the five brothers lying on the bed woke up one by one, and the big screen slowly dimmed. Everyone realized that this press conference had come to an end.

The audience was not in a hurry. They sat quietly waiting for Xu Meng to give her closing remarks.

But when Xu Meng opened her mouth, she didn't say anything concluding -

"The product launch ends here."

“But there is another piece of news that is not about a product, and I would like to take this opportunity to share it with you all!”

"That is--"

“Dream Machine is not the limit!”

“Zhumen’s pursuit of gaming technology will never end!”

"I once promised everyone: every penny you spend on Dream Building will not be wasted!"

“So next, DreamBuild will start to develop [brain-computer interface] technology! Continue to expand the possibilities of [gaming]!”

“If everything goes well, everyone will see DreamWorks make important progress in brain-computer interface technology in the near future!”

The tone in which Xu Meng talked about "entering the field of brain-computer interface" was similar to the tone he used when he talked about [Civilization Jet] and [Holographic Air Fryer] before.

Just as confident and well-planned.

But the audience was not so calm!

"Wait a minute, buddy! Everyone is still arguing about whether the Dream Machine is real or not, and you're already making promises about brain-computer interfaces?"

"Do you even know what you are talking about?!"

(End of this chapter)