134: Chapter 134 This is a God-Level Development Tool

Although Wang Peng didn't understand what his cousin was saying, he knew that what his cousin said was more correct; clearly, his cousin was playing a very big game.

He nodded blankly.

Then, everyone dove back into discussing the game.

Wang Peng's chubby face was flushed red with excitement, and he was still gesticulating wildly.

"When that hammer came down, I'd already written my will!"

"I almost peed myself back there!"

Lu Yaoguang and Yang Yueru were chattering in the corner of the sofa.

They were excitedly discussing which NPC's uniform looked better in the game.

After the noise, exhaustion surged like a tide.

"It's getting late, everyone eat dinner and get some rest."

Lu Li checked the time and realized it was actually 7 PM.

Just then, the food prepared by the hotel arrived right on time.

Because there were many people today, they had asked the hotel to prepare a bit more in advance.

While eating dinner,

Wang Peng wiped his mouth and clamored to play all night.

"Play all night? Aren't you afraid your mom will yell you to death?"

Lu Li walked over and expressionlessly snatched the Virtual Helmet from his arms.

He herded this overly excited bunch back to their guest rooms.

...

Inside their master bedroom,

Mist curled in the air.

Lu Li, wearing a loose bathrobe, leaned against the headboard, watching Su Qingxue just coming out of the bathroom.

Soft fabric clung to her skin, outlining her incredibly imposing figure.

Water droplets slid down her hair tips, hitting the thick wool carpet, revealing a rare, charming shyness.

She sat on the edge of the bed and picked up the hair dryer.

"Still thinking about what was said earlier?"

Her voice was mostly drowned out by the hum of the hair dryer.

She was referring to Lu Li's statement in the living room about "setting the table."

"Yeah." Lu Li pulled her hand, gathered her into his arms, rested his chin gently on her fragrant shoulder, turned his head, and sniffed the fresh scent in her hair. "Wang Peng is still too green, his mind is only filled with getting all the world's money into his own pocket."

Su Qingxue turned off the hair dryer.

She leaned into his broad chest, feeling that restless hand wandering over her body, her face instantly turning bright red.

"He's just a kid, they're all greedy."

"Yeah, but there's no end to making money."

Lu Li's gaze grew deep.

He wasn't avoiding a monopoly because he was some kind of saint.

Rather, it was because he knew better than anyone what would happen if a technology—especially a foundational technology like Virtual Reality that could define the next generation of human lifestyle—was completely monopolized by a single private company.

That would no longer be a commercial act, but a challenge to social order.

At that point, what would greet him wouldn't be more wealth, but likely a thunderous strike from the state level.

Water that is too clear has no fish.

Pulling giants like Alibaba and JD.com to his own "table," letting them continue to make money under the rules he set—even making more—and creating countless entrepreneurial opportunities for ordinary people on the massive Virtual Helmet platform; that was the most stable business empire.

What he wanted to be was the person who collected the "ecosystem tax."

Not personally getting down into the arena to grab every single copper coin.

"I know." Su Qingxue hugged him back, rubbing her cheek against his chest, her voice full of peace and pride. "Whatever you do is always the best choice."

Then the lights went out, and only heavy breathing remained in the bedroom.

...

Over the next few days, Lu Li dove headfirst into the newly renovated headquarters of Genesis Game Company, located across from Guanghui Technology.

The studio was no longer the small workshop of just a few dozen people.

Lu Li spent a fortune to buy the entire twenty-five-story building.

Over two thousand top game developers, programmers, and artists poached from across the country and the world worked here; its scale was already enough to rival any established domestic gaming giant.

The purpose of Lu Li's visit was to inspect a core project that would determine the future of the virtual world—the "Thought Modeling" program.

In the dust-free laboratory of the core R&D department,

The project lead, a technical genius wearing black-rimmed glasses, was reporting to Lu Li with a worried face.

"Boss, we've hit a bottleneck. The current program can capture the tester's basic thought images, but the rendered models are very rough, full of 'noise,' just like an out-of-focus old photo."

"Simply put, we imagine a lifelike dragon, but what the program generates might just be a blurry lizard with wings."

Lu Li heard this and just nodded calmly.

He put on a specialized debugging Virtual Helmet and accessed the program's underlying code library.

This helmet was like a keyboard and mouse, capable of reading certain brain instructions.

"Give the control to me."

The next second, under the shocked gaze of all the R&D staff, dozens of code windows opened on the screen in front of Lu Li.

His hands subconsciously lifted, though he didn't make many other movements, and countless lines of complex underlying algorithms and logic instructions cascaded down like a waterfall.

When he fixed those bugs, everyone around held their breath.

No one dared to make a sound.

One day and one night, a full twenty-four hours.

Lu Li finally took off the helmet and rubbed his temples.

When he took off the helmet, a flash of fatigue crossed his eyes, but more of it was an expression of satisfaction.

He said calmly to the dumbfounded project lead:

"Try it again."

The lead tremblingly put on the helmet, took a deep breath, and conceived of a phoenix spreading its wings in his mind.