The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 500 Xu Meng: I love watching players fight! (Please give me double the monthly tickets at the end of the month!)

Xu Meng clenched his fists tightly, wanting to punch these unruly voters on the head twice!
But looking at the soaring number of votes, I can only sigh helplessly.

The number of users who have invested in this thing has exceeded 5000 million!
If he hits one person on the head twice, even if he throws six punches per second, it will take 192 days.

I'm exhausted.

As for his appeal, it is undoubtedly very strong:

[Ancient Roman Super Baths] The number of votes soared, with more than 10 million votes added in 500 minutes.

This is when the voting is almost over and most users no longer have any votes.

But the problem is: there are too many unruly people!

The two options are closely matched in terms of votes.

It seems that the gap is indeed narrowing, but the speed of narrowing is not fast enough and is full of uncertainty.

Xu Meng was anxious and turned to Xiao Meng for help: "Xiao Meng, according to the current vote changes, will the statue fall out of the top 10 by the end?"

"Sure!" Xiao Meng gave the answer instantly.

But before Xu Meng could laugh, Xiao Meng changed her answer the next second: "Not possible now."

"?" A question mark slowly appeared in Xu Meng's head.

Xiao Meng blinked, and tiny streams of code flashed in her pupils.

"Well, it seems possible."

"But I can't say for sure..."

Xu Meng went straight to the point, pinching the little guy's chubby face and rubbing it, while asking: "Explain it to me clearly!"

Xiao Meng's face was rubbed, and she couldn't speak clearly. She could only whimper and whine: "Their growth rate is not stable!"

Xu Meng was helpless.

Watching the growth in the number of votes, I felt more nervous than when I was threatened by Michael.

Until the last hour, the two options were still competing with each other.

Xu Meng hesitated for a moment and posted again:
"Friends, how about a deal?
If you really want to build a statue of me in Sprawling City, that's fine.

But how about we change to a more serious look? "

The stubborn people were unwilling to accept it:

“Is this surrender and half loss?”

"Change the voting options? At this moment?? Are you kidding me?!"

"If you really want to change, it's okay. Why don't you wear women's clothes?"

……

The people are unwilling.

Xiao Meng couldn't bear to see Xu Meng in such a difficult situation, so she took the initiative to give him some advice: "Master, do you want Xiao Meng to help?"

"Help? How?"

"Xiao Meng can vote for you a lot!" Xiao Meng shook her little ears and said proudly.

Xu Meng shook his head on the spot: "Things like swiping votes are against the principle of fairness."

"It's not about vote-rigging!" Xiao Meng shook her head: "Xiao Meng can become many people!"

As the little guy was talking, little girls who looked roughly like Xiao Meng but had slightly different features appeared around him.

In the blink of an eye, the office was filled with pink-haired little dreams.

Xiao Meng pointed at them and introduced them to Xu Meng one by one:
“This is a little dream!”

“This is Meng Meng!”

"This is Meng Xiao."

"Meng Xiaoxiao, Xiao Mengmeng, Meng Xiaomeng..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Xu Meng quickly hugged the little girl to stop her from continuing to say the tongue twister.

But Xiao Meng was stopped, and the other little guys started calling him master and wanted to introduce themselves.

"Stop!"

Xu Meng poked Xiao Meng's forehead and said, "Quickly put away your magical powers."

"No offense."

"If it doesn't work... I'll find a reason to blow it up after the statue is built."

"After the bombing, they said that the city was expanding due to financial constraints, so they left it alone without repairing it. After a long time, maybe everyone would forget about it."

"Oh." Xiao Meng nodded, then waved her hand and asked her little sisters to leave.

Xu Meng breathed a sigh of relief.

But he did not accept his fate. For such a strange thing, it would be better to choose it than not to be selected!
Otherwise, he couldn't even imagine how the development team members in the Mansheng City project team would laugh when they were making this statue...

……

In the last 10 minutes, [Ancient Roman Super Baths] finally surpassed [Private Marseille Statue] and successfully entered the top 10.

And continue this advantage!
"Good!" Xu Meng couldn't help but clench his fist to celebrate in the office.

But in the last 5 minutes, the number of votes for [Private Marseille Statue] began to soar rapidly again, and it took only 3 minutes to overtake!
Two minutes later, the [Sprawling Metropolis Expansion Voting] officially ended.

The final ranking is:

1. [Universal Library]
2. [Big Data Dating Agency]
3. [Interracial Massage Parlor]
4. [World Tree]
5. Twin Towers
6. [Space Station]
7. Steampunk Whale
8. Black Box
9. [Yongning Temple Ancient Pagoda]
10. [Private Marseille Statue]
When the result came out, Xu Meng sighed and lay down on the sofa.

The Internet's troublemakers were instantly excited:

"Hahaha, you didn't expect that, did you, Boss Xu? We specifically agreed to leave the voting to the last 5 minutes!"

"[Private Marseille] Statue, this name is really not nice, it's better to change it to [Confession of Sins]!"

"How can such a huge sprawling city not have a statue of its founder!"

"Keep your word! Get to work! I can't wait even a minute, hahaha."

……

Apart from these troublemakers, most of the remaining users are calm.

After all, the most popular options don’t change much.

——Except for the up-and-coming [Black Box], which unexpectedly broke into the top 10 at an astonishing speed without any publicity or canvassing, the rest are familiar faces.

Of course, there are also users from many countries who feel disappointed because their own nation’s famous buildings were not selected.

But they accepted the result yesterday. The number of voters for the top 10 options exceeds the total population of most countries in the world.

In this game of "more people than others", countries with smaller populations are naturally at a big disadvantage.

You are not even qualified to sit at the table to eat.

Even India, a great Eastern country, unexpectedly failed to vote for its own famous buildings.

This still came as a surprise to netizens around the world.

……

When Xu Meng was lying on the sofa, Xiao Meng, who was lying close to him, suddenly raised her head and pointed at the air with her finger.

A request from the Sprawling City Project Team appeared in front of Xu Meng:
[Boss, do you see this statue?]
The efficiency of dream building remains the same as always.

During the three days of voting, some projects with stable rankings have already started construction ahead of schedule.

The original plan was to take it out as soon as the voting was over to give the players a surprise.

But when Xu Meng suddenly spoke, his employees couldn't help but hesitate.

"?" Xu Meng was stunned on the spot.

No way?
"They've already made the statue? So positive??"

While Xu Meng was asking the question, Xiao Meng had already forwarded his words to the project team.

[Well, it’s done, because this is relatively simple…]
The project team seems to lack confidence.

Xu Meng shook her head: "I'll go now."

As the chairman of the Sprawling Metropolis City Management Council, of course he has to be the one to announce the results.

He stood up from the sofa holding Xiao Meng in his arms.

Xiao Meng understood and waved her hand.

The scene in the office changes rapidly.

In just a few seconds, they appeared in the central square of the sprawling city.

At the same time, a brand new idea suddenly popped into his head!
"Xiao Meng, start the live broadcast!"

"Yeah." Xiao Meng started the live broadcast quickly.

As the players quickly rushed into the live broadcast room, the players in the central square also noticed Xu Meng's appearance and gathered here.

"Good evening, everyone!" Xu Meng greeted everyone.

Without waiting for the player in front of him to speak, he got straight to the point: "This live broadcast is to announce the next phase of the expansion plan for the Sprawling City!"

The player who originally wanted to make a few jokes about the statue didn't get a chance to talk, and when he saw that the live broadcast had already started, he had to calm down and listen to Xu Meng's story.

"According to the plan, we will complete the construction of the 10 projects one by one according to the ranking from high to low."

"But we fully understand everyone's urgency, so we have made some small adjustments to the construction sequence—"

“We will complete the relatively simple projects first so that everyone can clearly see the results of their participation, and then build the remaining complex projects in order of ranking.”

"In the meantime, I need to make advance instructions on two special projects—"

“[The Library of Nations] will be the last project to be completed.”

"The amount of work for this project is extremely staggering, and it is definitely not something that can be completed by Dream Building alone. I must mobilize my connections and money to get this project off the ground. I hope everyone will understand."

"[Big Data Dating Agency], this project will involve a large amount of user data. We must develop a new set of rules and algorithms, which will also take a lot of time..."

What Xu Meng said was actually something everyone had expected.

No one is here to argue with him.

"Except for these two, the rest are fine!"

"Besides, I'll give you a few right now!"

As Xu Meng spoke, he walked across the path made clear by the crowd and came to the very center of the central square.

There is a wide pool here, with a gorgeous marble fountain sculpture standing in the center of the pool.

Xu Meng stood by the pool and held up a seed the size of a basketball for everyone at the scene and in the live broadcast room to see.

"Look everyone, this is the seed of the World Tree!"

"As long as you give it enough water and sunlight, it will grow endlessly!"

“Next, we plant this seed.”

"Because everyone said that this tree should be planted in the city center. So, we let it take root here."

The seeds, emitting a faint green glow, were thrown into the pool.

The water level is dropping rapidly!
Xu Meng quickly walked away from the pool.

The live broadcast room has a special perspective provided by Xiao Meng, which allows you to see directly underwater——

The seeds of the world tree greedily sucked the water, growing rapidly underwater and sprouting branches.

While breaking through the marble bottom of the pool, it takes root deeper into the earth.

The other side quickly stretched out, poking out of the water, shattering the original marble sculpture, and extending its branches and leaves towards the sunlight.

But just as it was about to take the next step in its development, Xu Meng suddenly spoke again:
"And this is ranked 10th—"

“A bowing sculpture right in the middle of the city!”

The moment he opened his mouth, a huge monster suddenly appeared in the air.

A huge shade covers the entire pool!
"Boom" a loud noise!
A giant rock sculpture as high as a hundred meters fell from the sky, smashing the fountain and pool, and knocking the newly grown world tree seedlings back into the ground!
The players who were standing unsteadily looked at the sculpture in shock, then at Xu Meng.

For a moment, I didn't react to what happened.

Xu Meng looked at the confused players around him and spread his hands helplessly:

"Don't look at me."

“This is the result of your vote.”

"Everyone wants to grab the Feng Shui treasure land in the city center, so they bump into each other, right?"

"As for the rest - should we keep the statue as it is, or smash it and let the World Tree continue to grow..."

"You guys discuss it among yourselves!"

Players:?

Let's discuss it? ?

How to discuss this???

(End of this chapter)