System: Master Your Life

Chapter 845 - 209: Young Master Xu Keeps Pushing Forward

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In the morning, Weibo was buzzing.

Young Master Xu dominated the rankings on Weibo, not to mention platforms with large traffic such as TikTok.

This is the fifth day since the release of "Man’s Guide to Reversing Fortune."

By now, over three million people have purchased the game, and today it’s on track to hit four million.

Or maybe five million or even more.

In the age of information flow, the viral spread and explosion of information bring a terrifying amount of traffic.

Especially with TikTok backing it.

Weibo used to have huge traffic in its early days, but now it’s cooled down a lot, with most traffic on TikTok.

Young Master Xu quickly achieved top rankings in TikTok’s short videos, with various TikTok accounts, individuals, self-media outlets, marketing accounts discussing, and even some major media outlets talking; related videos easily receive massive traffic boosts.

So what did Young Master Xu do?

People took a look and realized Young Master Xu developed a game.

This game is the first to truly achieve realistic character generation and self-thinking game characters, thus in the game development field, it is deemed a groundbreaking masterpiece, unparalleled.

And in the tech circle, these two technologies, particularly self-thinking game characters, combined to present a parallel-world-like existence to the public, driving the tech circle wild, with global attention.

It’s important to know that technologies like artificial intelligence’s self-thinking can be applied across so many fields. Games are just one application; it can also be applied in robotics, medicine, smart driving, manufacturing, and so forth.

So just how terrifying is the tool Young Master Xu is wielding?

In short, this morning, Young Master Xu exploded across TikTok.

"Already over five million so soon."

At eleven in the morning, Xu Lin received notification; the number of paying users has reached five million.

With traffic support, the number of paying users grew even faster.

And the game is only 29 US Dollars.

As a groundbreaking game with no substitutes, priced at only thirty bucks per copy, there is no one more conscientious than Xu Lin.

This item, he could sell for a thousand a pop and still find plenty of buyers.

Monopoly means being able to do whatever you want.

Xu Lin spent the day on set today.

He decided to stay for another two days.

He’ll leave tomorrow.

At eight in the evening, he returned to the hotel; the number of paying users had already reached over nine million three hundred thousand; from eleven in the morning till now, nine hours later, an increase of over four hundred thousand.

Nearly ten million.

Another half-hour passed.

The number of paying users officially broke ten million.

In response, Xu Lin specially posted a new Weibo entry:

The number of paying users for "Man’s Guide to Reversing Fortune" surpasses ten million; originally, this game was developed for certain men, but I didn’t expect so many people to play, and female players even make up thirty to forty percent. It seems I was hasty; I will develop more gameplay soon, stay tuned.

Then, a second Weibo entry: This is my first application of artificial intelligence self-thinking; I used five formulas to allow game characters to simulate human thought, but as I said, this is only a simulation of human thought, not that artificial intelligence learned to think like humans, so everyone can rest assured, there is no Skynet invasion, nor Terminator, nor Matrix Revolution.

"Young Master Xu, five formulas, what are they?"

"Please share the formulas, I’m so curious."

"These must be important formulas, are you stupid for asking like this? Can they be posted on Weibo?"

"Is this just simulating human thought? You say these people can think for themselves, and I totally believe it!"

"That’s why I find it so scary."

Soon.

Xu Lin posted a third Weibo entry: "At the start, big companies stay away, foreign companies stay away, it must be local enterprises, and they cannot be comprised of foreign capital, my technology cannot be leaked! I plan to apply at least two formulas to three medium or small-sized robotics companies. My expertise goes without saying, everyone has witnessed it; the company obtaining my technology might quickly grow into an industry giant worth hundreds of billions. I will open the channel for companies to send their resumes to me, but first, I must own thirty percent of your company’s shares, so think carefully before submitting your resume. If you think I’m asking too much, don’t bother."

"Awesome, growing into a billion-dollar enterprise so quickly? Is it that exaggerated?"

"That billion might be in US Dollar denomination; don’t underestimate such technology; adding the ability to simulate human thought to robots, not talking about large-scale, if household robots can enter human life, then growing into a hundred billion US Dollar company isn’t exaggerated at all!"

"The uses of household robots are so extensive; the future of this industry is limitless!"

"Young Master Xu sees clearly; big companies stay away since their shareholder structures likely have foreign capital, right?"

"Yes, almost all large companies, especially private ones, have foreign capital among their shareholders, so Young Master Xu said only medium or small companies, as they’re likely the cleanest, but how many are willing to offer thirty percent shares?"

"Young Master Xu can take you to the skies, even if he wants fifty percent, I bet plenty of people would be willing!"

Come to think of it, Xu Lin asks for thirty percent, that’s already considered little.