298: Chapter 298 Virtual Spring Festival Town, Subverting Traditional New Year's Eve

Main venue. Temple fair area. Firework area. Red envelope interaction area. Virtual reunion dinner area. Parent-child mini-game area. High-altitude viewing area. Family box area.

Each area was separated and then reconnected into a complete town structure.

The server team wasn't idle either.

Following Lu Li's request, they directly made the Spring Festival Gala Town into a mirrored sharding model.

Every ten thousand people entered the same mirrored town.

Once the number was exceeded, the system automatically opened a new mirrored server.

The scene layout seen by users was completely identical, but they were actually distributed across different servers.

This not only preserved the lively feeling of ten thousand people on one screen but also prevented tens of millions of users from crashing the same scene.

The prop team was responsible for fireworks, red envelopes, lantern riddles, New Year greetings, and various New Year interactions.

The audit team synchronized checks on all content to avoid issues upon temporary launch.

In the entire virtual workspace, a new version was pushed out almost every few minutes.

Some adjusted stage effects, some changed street layouts, and some tested red envelope withdrawals.

Others repeatedly entered the scene to check if the first image the user saw was surprising enough.

After a few hours, the first launchable version of the Spring Festival Gala Town was finally completed.

Although it was still far from truly perfect, it was at least lively enough, had enough of a New Year atmosphere, and was enough to shock users entering for the first time.

The person in charge looked at the final test data and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Submit to Su Qingxue."

"Tell her the first version of the Spring Festival Gala Town is ready for launch."

While the Guanghui Technology team entered the final debugging state, on the other side, Lu Li and Su Qingxue finally returned to their villa area.

Now, the entire villa area basically belonged to Lu Li.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it was surnamed Lu.

More importantly, he hoped his parents and elders would live comfortably and not feel too lonely in the massive villa area.

Afraid his parents would be lonely, Lu Li specifically asked someone to invite their old neighbors over.

He rented the villas to them at an extremely low price.

Of course, they were willing.

Such big villas, such a good environment, and the price was ridiculously low. Who would refuse?

Lu Li didn't care about this small expense.

To him, as long as his parents and elders were happy, it was more important than anything else.

Early on the morning of Lunar New Year's Eve, Lu Li hadn't fully woken up when he heard crackling outside.

He opened his eyes, stunned for a few seconds, before realizing it was the sound of firecrackers.

He pushed open the window and looked out.

In the direction of the lake in the distance, he could vaguely see a group of figures.

Wang Peng, with that group of little friends from the village, had actually driven flying vehicles to the small island in the middle of the lake to set off firecrackers.

The island wasn't big and was usually used for fishing.

Now, it had been turned into a temporary firework position by them.

Lu Li immediately had Xiao Dou AI open a remote voice connection to the flying vehicle on the other side.

"Wang Peng."

In the distance, Wang Peng's virtual communication connected quickly.

"Brother, Happy New Year's Eve!"

Lu Li said irritably, "Happy my ass."

"Running to the middle of the lake to set off firecrackers early in the morning, do you really think you have nine lives?"

Wang Peng chuckled on the other end.

"It's fine, Brother Li, we have a Robot watching over us."

Lu Li warned, "Even with a Robot, don't mess around."

"It's cold now, and the lake isn't frozen."

"If you really fall in, a cold would be the least of your worries."

"If someone can't swim, the New Year will turn into an accident scene."

Wang Peng hurriedly promised, "Don't worry, don't worry."

"We'll just set them off on the island and won't go near the water."

Lu Li scolded a few more times before hanging up.

Scolding aside, he didn't actually stop them.

It was the New Year, after all. A little excitement was good.

He just needed to give a warning and arrange for a Doraemon Robot to go to the lakeside and keep an eye on them.

Just as Lu Li finished washing up and went downstairs, he saw Lu Yaoguang running over, holding her phone, looking excited.

"Brother!" "You're number one on the hot search list again!"

Lu Li wiped his hands, his expression calm. "When have I not been?"

Lu Yaoguang rolled her eyes at him. "This time is different."

"This time it's not the star wing m1, nor the Virtual Helmet, it's Guanghui Technology's reunion dinner last night."

Lu Li took the phone and glanced at it. Sure enough.

The number one hot search was a striking entry. [Guanghui Technology Reunion Dinner]

Behind it was a deep red "Explosive" tag.

Clicking into it, almost everything was sneak-peek videos of last night's Guanghui Technology reunion dinner and screenshots of prizes posted by employees.

Cash red envelopes. House red envelopes. Flying vehicle quotas. Virtual Helmet family sets. Home Robot sets. And corrupt management caught on the spot by internal audits.

These things mixed together simply stunned the entire internet.

In one video, a Guanghui employee held up their phone, the lens shaking violently, their voice almost cracking from shouting.

"Brothers! My colleague won a house!" "It's not a voucher!" "It's a real house!" "A house worth over two million in the new city around Mingzhu City!" "Damn, I'm so envious I'm about to fall apart!"

The comment section was incredibly lively.

"Ahhhhh, my friend is at Guanghui. He won a house last night. I'm so angry looking at his WeChat Moments right now."

"A house worth over two million just given away like that? Lu Li, do you still need employees? I can sweep floors."

"Forget sweeping floors, I can go to the Guanghui entrance and be a mascot."

"You're all staring at the house, but I think the ones who won the star wing m1 quota are the real badasses."

"Agreed, although the official guide price for the flying vehicle isn't outrageous, you don't even have the qualifications to buy one now; the waiting list goes on forever."

"At least you can buy a house, but with the star wing m1, even if you have money, you might not get one."

"My friend won a home Robot, and he said his mom cried on the video on the spot."

"This is what you call a reunion dinner! Our company's reunion dinner gives out tissues, and you have to draw them one pack at a time."

"Stop complaining, our company's reunion dinner is the boss drawing a pie, and the pie isn't even round yet."

What was even more outrageous was that Guanghui didn't just throw money around last night.

Someone also leaked videos of internal audits taking away several management members.

In the video, several mid-to-high-level managers who were originally sitting in the management seats were escorted away on the spot by Guanghui's supervision and legal departments.

As it turned out, on the day of the reunion dinner, Lu Li had the audit team throw out the evidence of tampering with the lucky draw.

Fire those who should be fired. Send those who should be sent in. He didn't save face for anyone.

Seeing this, netizens were even more excited.

"Holy crap, catching corruption in the prize draw at the reunion dinner? What kind of power fantasy plot is this?"

"I thought Guanghui just gave out money, I didn't expect them to actually dare to touch management."

"Employees get money, corrupt officials go to jail. Lu Li, you really understand what everyone wants to see."

"This is what an enterprise should look like, right? Not just shouting about wolf culture every day, only for the money to be taken by those at the top."

"I suddenly understand why Guanghui employees have such a sense of belonging. The boss really gives money, really protects employees, and really cleans up the pests."

Soon, people began discussing Guanghui alongside Pang Donglai.

"Before, when people talked about good companies, my first reaction was Pang Donglai; now, I have to add Guanghui Technology."

"Pang Donglai is the conscience of the retail industry, and Guanghui is the conscience of the tech industry."

"There are many companies that can give money to employees, but very few can give to this extent while also cleaning up internal pests."

"To be honest, the more companies like Guanghui, the better. Employees earn money, consumers get good products, and the country has high-tech. Who wouldn't want more of them?"

"This is what you call a national entrepreneur. It's not about shouting slogans, but about actually putting food on the table for ordinary people."