Chapter 1 Fame

This time, Lin Chen's fame wasn't due to how awesome he was in the game.

In a game about to shut down, no matter how powerful you are, no one will think you're amazing.

After all, the game is ending!

Lin Chen's fame came from his classmates' revelations...

Yes.

When the "New World" online game announced its permanent shutdown with no compensation, Lin Chen actually sold his house, borrowed money, and poured millions into it.

What was he trying to do?

Many people's first reaction to Lin Chen's actions was...

Retarded?

Brain-damaged?

Sick?

A sucker?

In short, there was no positive assessment.

Knowing that the game could only be played for less than half a month, yet still throwing millions into it was a puzzling move. If he were rich, it would just be a case of being foolish and wealthy.

However, in the information age, Lin Chen's identity and background were quickly exposed online.

He became a regular on various short video platforms.

[Analyzing a poor orphan boy: Why is he willing to sell his house to play a game that's about to shut down? It can only be said that online games are harmful!]

[Moron? Imbecile? Take you into the real life of "Millionaire Tycoon" in "New World"!]

[Squandering his parents' pension and selling his school district house, he should have had a better future.]

[The biggest sucker in online games, Lin Chen, a scholar from Longhai City University, we should feel sorry for him!]

[Half a month later, the game servers shut down. How will an orphaned scholar who has spent his savings and mortgaged his house survive?]

[Is it illness or sentimentality? A university scholar orphan spends his parents' pension, sells his school district house, and incurs millions in debt. When the game shuts down, can he continue to survive?]

[...]

Good grief.

After finishing a day of gaming, Lin Chen saw videos of himself everywhere on Kuaiyin.

Yes!

Lin Chen was famous.

Even infamy is fame!

Lin Chen even received many phone calls...

"Hello? Is this Lin Chen? I'm Jiang Tingting from the school's publicity department. Do you have time for an interview?"

Lin Chen revealed a playful expression upon hearing her words.

The school's publicity department...

What level is that!

There were even TV reporters wanting to interview Lin Chen now!

"Hello, Mr. Lin Chen, we are the "Contemporary Youth" program team from Longhai Urban Channel. I am Xiao Teng, the chief planner of the program team. We would like to formally invite you to participate in the latest episode of our program!"

"Hello, Mr. Lin Chen, we are from Kuaiyin official. Are you interested in cooperating with us to create a special program? We have support with tens of billions of traffic... If Mr. Lin Chen agrees, our compensation will definitely be generous! If Mr. Lin Chen settles on our Kuaiyin and opens an official account, we will immediately offer a signing bonus of eight hundred thousand."

"Hello, Mr. Lin Chen, I am the general manager of Brain Gold Health Products. I want to cooperate with you to host a live broadcast to help promote our products and sell goods. Do you see any intention to cooperate? I feel that you are very suitable to endorse our products!"

"..."

Good grief.

Lin Chen never expected that not only TV stations, but even the Kuaiyin platform would come to him.

At this time, the school's publicity department naturally had no chance.

"I'm sorry, I have already agreed to the Longhai Urban Channel's "Contemporary Youth" program team, and the Kuaiyin platform has also invited me to their headquarters to do a program. I guess I won't have time now."

Lin Chen declined Jiang Tingting.

Of course, the reason he was so polite was because Jiang Tingting was the second most beautiful girl in Lin Chen's school, with fair skin, beautiful appearance, and long legs, and a high-achieving student in the journalism department.

As for promoting Brain Gold...

Okay, Lin Chen hung up on that call directly.

It was a bit insulting.

Saying that it was very suitable for Lin Chen meant that Lin Chen was lacking a brain, right?

Lin Chen was already very polite by not telling them to get lost.

In Lin Chen's class group.

[Liu Shangfang: What's going on? Why is Lin Chen so popular now? Has everyone seen Kuaiyin?]

[Jiang Youyou: I saw it. At least six out of ten videos on Kuaiyin are about him now.]

[Chen Cong: Popular my ass, the videos are all about bashing him.]

[Liu Hai: That's right, is that considered popular? Hehe, I think he'll be forgotten once the heat dies down.]

[Ye Tenglong: The current deformed aesthetics are becoming more and more bottomless. I really didn't expect that such obviously brain-damaged behavior could be so popular.]

[Chen Cong: Ye Shao is jealous? Hehe, Lin Chen is probably very happy now. He's about to become a big star... Isn't there a saying? Traffic is king, even infamy is fame.]

[Jiang Youyou: Everyone is a classmate. I wanted to say this last time. It's best for everyone to be harmonious when chatting. Why are you being so sarcastic as soon as you mention Lin Chen? Besides, who says infamy isn't fame! My sister just told me that she wanted to interview Lin Chen, but she was rejected! Moreover, Lin Chen is about to participate in the "Contemporary Youth" program, and Kuaiyin headquarters has invited him to do a program.]

[Wang Jiajia: Damn! Really?]

[Liu Shangfang: So awesome?]

[Anonymous: @Ye Shao, what do you think?]

[Ye Tenglong: Can't be true, right? If it's true, then it's really fucked up! Damn it, so infamy really is fame? Lin Chen, that kid, is lucky!]

Hearing the news, Ye Tenglong didn't dare to continue mocking Lin Chen.

He now wished that he was the one who had done what Lin Chen had done.

However, he had no chance anymore. He had already sold his account to someone else.

But Ye Tenglong certainly couldn't imagine that he was only regretting it now. In the future, it wouldn't just be regret.

It would definitely be a very painful realization!

Lin Chen, on the other hand, was having dinner and talking to Liu Mengyao on the phone.

"Yeah, I'm going to the city tomorrow to participate in the recording of the "Contemporary Youth" program, and the day after tomorrow I'm going to Beijing to participate in Kuaiyin's special program... It's nothing, just talking about my journey! Haha, don't worry, I want to go myself. Haha, it's not for the money, you don't have to give me money, I really want to go myself."

Liu Mengyao thought that Lin Chen had agreed to participate in the TV station and Kuaiyin platform's programs for money. She had also seen those videos online, where various up-loaders' imaginations could be said to be full of black material and rumors. There were even fabrications about Lin Chen peeking at a widow bathing when he was a child.

But Lin Chen couldn't produce evidence that he had never peeked at a widow bathing from childhood to adulthood.

He couldn't record his entire life's growth trajectory, every moment, right?

Therefore, the online evaluation of Lin Chen was actually very bad.

As Chen Cong said, it was really infamy!

At this time, Lin Chen went out to participate in programs and talk to the national audience. Wasn't that like being a monkey for others to throw banana peels at?

Liu Mengyao didn't want Lin Chen to do that.

She even said that if Lin Chen was really short of money, she would find a way to get some from her family...

As a couple who had known each other for several years in the online game, it was already rare to be inseparable. Liu Mengyao was like a pie in the sky.

Lin Chen was naturally very grateful for this.

But there was no need.

Lin Chen had enough money now.

However, if he could earn more, he could hoard more supplies in the game. When the game merged in the future, all these supplies would be Lin Chen's capital.

At that time, everyone would be begging him.

Serving him as a beast of burden, wanting these supplies!

After comforting Liu Mengyao and telling her that he would be busy these days and might be online less, but would at least go online every day to accompany her to see the scenery for a while, Lin Chen called Zhang Chunlin again.

"I got two programs, and I'm even richer now. Continue to collect the game items for me until you're sick of it! Of course, the price must be kept to the lowest possible. Are the prices in the game dropping every day?"

"Yes, don't worry, Boss... Haha, Lin Chen, did you see? Many fence-sitters in the class group are envious of you now! As for Ye Tenglong, that guy is hilarious, he's just a clown, so jealous."

"Didn't see it, not interested!"

"Huh? Why is the school beauty Jiang Tingting calling me? Boss, wait for me!"

Zhang Chunlin went to answer the phone.

After a few minutes, Zhang Chunlin said happily: "Boss, Jiang Tingting doesn't know where she heard that I'm helping you collect things in the game, so she said she wanted to interview me, and she even asked her sister Jiang Youyou to help her. I...can I go?"

It was clear that Zhang Chunlin's tone was very excited.

Lin Chen remembered that Zhang Chunlin seemed to have always liked Jiang Youyou.

"If you want to go, then go." Lin Chen said indifferently.

"Don't worry, Boss, I won't talk nonsense!" Zhang Chunlin immediately said, "Thank you, Boss, for giving me this opportunity. I really wouldn't dare to agree if you didn't say so. If I get together with Jiang Youyou, you'll be my brother!"

"Hehe, you can say whatever you want, I only have one request: you can't listen when buying props and equipment in the game, and you can directly offer a reward for the formation blueprint I told you about!"

Lin Chen instructed Zhang Chunlin and hung up the phone.

Next, Lin Chen began to think about what to say on the program.

The crisis was about to come.

However, the whole world was still unaware.

Still living in extravagance and boundless prosperity...

However, this prosperity would soon be destroyed.

As an insider and a member of the Blue Star human race, Lin Chen's sense of responsibility drove him to remind everyone, but how to say it? First of all, the rhetoric of rebirth, even if said, no one would believe.

Secondly, this was Lin Chen's biggest secret and could not be said.

But this time, it was an excellent opportunity.

After thinking about it, Lin Chen suddenly had a flash of inspiration...

Why not just say that he had a dream!

At that time, whether others believed it or not, he would have done his best.

Moreover, Lin Chen could also take this opportunity to have a conversation with the military.

Although there were only ten days left in the game, if he started to enter the game and set up a layout now, the military of the Dragon Country would at least be prepared in the future.

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ps: The game plot will be relatively reduced next, mainly to describe the real background, which can also be regarded as a transition, and then the game will begin to invade.

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