Life at the Top

Mr. Adams’ eyes widened as Jasper said this.

He was about to say something when he noticed Jasper looking over with a smile. “Mr. Adams, do you have any more opinions?”

Thinking about the bet he had made with Jasper, Mr. Adams snorted coldly and said, “It’s all your money, Mr. Laine. Of course, I have no objections if you’re willing to spend that money. I just hope you won’t end up feeling bad when none of the 70 group servers are usable.”

Jasper only smiled and no longer mouthed off at Mr. Adams. He immediately announced, “Everyone, please work a little harder today, stick to your guns, and clock in a few extra hours. I’ll join everyone in working overtime. Also, supper is on me. I’ll get the chefs from Sheraton to whip up something for us. Just make sure everything is done well on your end!”

Cheers filled the entire branch office.

Coming out of the conference room, Jasper noticed Jack’s slightly stiff expression as they made their way to Jack’s office. He smiled and asked, “Jack, are you nervous? This isn’t like you.”

Jack laughed bitterly. “Mr. Laine, it might be nothing for you but we’ve spent too much time and money on this United Legends project. I don’t think I’ll still have the confidence to continue if this fails.”

Patting Jack’s shoulder, Jasper said with a smile, “First of all, we won’t fail. Second, even if we do fail, that’s not important. A loss is a loss. I can still afford to lose this bit of money, and it would be my first time failing so I wouldn’t mind having a taste of it.”

Jack gave Jasper a blank look before shaking his head and saying with a wry smile, “Mr. Laine, to be frank, what you say sometimes really… makes me want to punch you.”

“Hahaha!”

…

“United Legends is opening soon for open beta testing!”

The news spread across the country in a short period of time.

if one was accessing a web portal or a messaging app, even

turned into quasi-online game players. They were

the year 2001 when domestic games were still scarce, the kind of games that many people played were like Command and Conquer:

online multiplayer role-playing

all the players were looking forward to

was trying to gather friends through phone calls

all had to suddenly work overtime for the time

had unfinished assignments were also suddenly working hard to finish them in one

at night were suddenly making excuses for not being able to make

country at almost the same time. One after another, they sat in front of their computers after switching them on, waiting for it to be

the right and left only to see that everyone there was waiting for the release of United Legends.

user ID are you

you wanna go

warrior or mage? Or

that, they began chatting about the

It was hard to tell the future of such a game

but other people from the local gaming industry and the internet industry were also keeping an

to venture into online gaming and had received quite a lot of attention because of it. Everyone was waiting quietly for the

expectations of millions of players, the hand

“Open the server!”

the first ten group