Chapter 964: New Mission Objective
A game designer graced the cover of Time magazine, sparking a massive uproar worldwide.
Even in a parallel world where the gaming industry was held in high regard, this was an astonishing feat.
After all, Chen Mo’s competitors were national leaders, business tycoons, scientists who had made significant contributions to technological development, international superstars, and even certain special interest groups.
The fact that he managed to defeat them all and be elected sent a clear message: the influence of games in this world was still rising, and rising fast.
And Chen Mo happened to be at the very forefront of this wave.
What’s more, Chen Mo was Chinese.
In this world, the last Chinese person to grace the cover of Time magazine was a great leader decades ago who profoundly shaped the global landscape.
It was easy to imagine that Chen Mo’s entry into the World Gaming Hall of Fame and his appearance on the cover of Time had pushed his reputation to its peak—not just within the gaming field.
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“Boss Chen, this is already the seventh media outlet today calling to request an exclusive interview with you,” Lin Xiao said helplessly.
Without even lifting his head, Chen Mo replied, “Turn them all down. No time. If the Game Committee wants me, Qiao Hua will call me personally. Reject everyone else.”
“Understood.” Lin Xiao nodded and stepped out.
Chen Mo leaned back in his chair with a hint of exasperation. As someone who absolutely detested social interactions, his current situation was nothing short of a nuisance. Even after turning down everything he could, the Game Committee would inevitably arrange some mandatory events.
Still, at least Chen Mo’s status was high enough now that the Game Committee respected his wishes to some extent, so these trivial matters wouldn’t derail his upcoming plans.
Suddenly, Chen Mo noticed a faint glow emanating from the bracelet on his left wrist.
He froze. This had never happened before.
He lightly touched the bracelet, and a virtual screen appeared.
But this time, instead of the lottery interface, a line of mission text showed up.
“Main Objective: Become the greatest game designer in the parallel world. (Completed)”
“Side Objective 1: Achieve monthly revenue exceeding 200 million for a single game. (Completed)”
“Side Objective 2: Achieve over 100 million monthly active players for a single game. (Completed)”
“Side Objective 3: Develop games across PC, mobile, and VR platforms, with at least one classic title on each platform. (Completed)”
“Side Objective 4: Enter the World Hall of Fame and achieve super-A-list celebrity popularity. (Completed)”
“All main and side objectives completed. Rewards available for claiming.”
“Highest authority granted. Activating all content. Generating new objectives…”
“Rewriting the world line…”
“Main objective updated.”
“Main Objective: Change the world.”
Chen Mo was completely dumbfounded.
What the hell? Mission complete?
This mission had been with him ever since he first transmigrated into the parallel world, but it had never reappeared on the virtual bracelet’s interface afterward, so he had nearly forgotten about it.
Now it turned out the objective was still valid.
In fact, several of these side objectives had been completed long ago, but the last one was particularly difficult, so it wasn’t until now that the entire series of missions was finally finished.
In other words, given the level of game design in this era, Chen Mo had essentially reached the pinnacle.
But the system’s tasks clearly weren’t over. The new mission no longer had precise metrics—no revenue targets, no active player counts.
Just one goal: Change the world.
Chen Mo felt a headache coming on. What the hell does “change the world” even mean?!
I made a Matrix-style glasses for everyone in the world to use—that’s already changing the world, isn’t it?
But apparently, the system’s definition of “changing the world” was slightly different from Chen Mo’s.
Since the new main objective was so vague, there was no point worrying about it. After all, this system, which barely had any presence, had been issuing equally low-key tasks for ages. Chen Mo was already used to it.
What really caught his interest was the “rewards available for claiming.”
This system was way too stingy!
Ever since he got this system, Chen Mo had never received any free rewards. Everything was bought.
From the initial pay-to-lottery draws to later using happiness points and resentment points for draws, every lottery and every item in the shop had a clear price tag. Chen Mo might make a small profit, but the system never lost.
Now that he had finally completed all the main missions, this tight-fisted system was actually giving out a reward!
Chen Mo tapped the reward button with his right hand. An animation of chains shattering and a door opening appeared on the screen, and then…
A special tech tree interface materialized before Chen Mo.
The tech tree was divided into three sections, from left to right: [Virtual Reality Technology], [Artificial Intelligence Technology], and [Hardware Technology].
Chen Mo blinked, wondering if he was seeing things.
He grabbed the bottle of Happy Cola from his desk, chugged a few gulps, and looked at the tech tree on the virtual screen again.
Yep, this so-called mission completion reward was just unlocking a tech tree interface with no activated options.
Chen Mo was speechless. “System, do you have a warped understanding of what a ‘reward’ is?! This new feature activation should have been given to me in the first place! And you’re treating it as a reward? That’s like me spending three bucks on a drink, and you telling me the drink itself is the reward for my purchase?!”
Despite his complaints, Chen Mo still took a serious look at the tech tree.
Well, it was impressive.
Three sections, three tech trees, with some intersections in the later stages—meaning certain technologies required unlocking specific prerequisites from two tech trees simultaneously.
The activation conditions for each tech node varied. Besides meeting the prerequisite technologies, other requirements were needed, such as using happiness point + resentment point lottery chances, spending money, or unlocking through developing specific games.
What intrigued Chen Mo the most was unlocking through games.
It sounded complicated, but in simple terms: develop a game where that technology appears in the game world, achieve a certain sales volume and influence, and then the technology would be activated in the real world.
However, not many tech nodes required this method of unlocking.
Chen Mo looked at the first node of each tech tree.