Dark Forest's First-Day Sales Surpass 240,000!

The next day, just as everyone was immersed in the oppressive unease and terrifying thrill of Dark Forest, a notice was frantically reposted by major gaming media outlets.

It was a sales congratulations message posted by Dark Forest's developer, Shuo Guang!

At that moment, the Fourth Calamity Club's editor reposted it and pinned it to the top.

In just one afternoon, it had gained a flame icon, indicating that the post was being heavily discussed!

The title of this trending post was simple. It was obviously written by the editor.

Dark Forest's first-day sales surpass 240,000! A double harvest in sales and reviews! Developer promised: To thank everyone for their support, a VR Game will definitely be released in one month!

This news was undoubtedly a bombshell that left players utterly stunned!

What did 240,000 sales on the first day even mean?

It meant more than sixteen million yuan!

An indie developer, without a team, had made a Horror Game that sold 240,000 copies on its very first day?

What kind of skill and talent was that?!

Previously, domestic games could only possibly surpass 200,000 sales in their first week or first month.

No one had ever heard of one breaking 200,000 on its first day!

They had witnessed it today, and the game at the top of the charts was even a Horror Game.

What an irony.

The game that had topped the charts was not one of the mainstream genres—shooting, racing, or sports—but a Horror Game, a genre no one dared touch, no one thought highly of, and one that supposedly doomed whoever made it!

At that moment, netizens flooded the comments beneath the post.

"Though I already guessed it, it's still shocking for a domestic game to sell 240,000 copies on its first day."

"The game quality is rock-solid! I think these sales are well deserved! I bought it too, and I got wrecked in the third area."

"Who still dares look down on Horror Games now? Just slap this sales figure in their face!"

"Honestly, those game companies should take a look at what a high-quality Horror Game actually is and see just how trashy the garbage they make really is."

"What worries me more is that those trash companies will jump on the bandwagon and make Horror Games. Then a bunch of garbage games will hit the market again."

"The official claim is that the game has over ten hours of content, but I'm nearly ten hours in already and am still barely surviving in the second area."

"I'm already at twenty hours and still in the second area too, but I'm about to head into the third."

There were plenty more discussions like that.

However, the first-day sales were not the only surprising thing.

What came afterward was even more explosive.

The post explicitly stated that a VR Game would be released in one month and asked everyone to stay tuned.

A VR Game would definitely be released in a month?

Players' first reaction upon seeing the news was that it had to be fake.

Everyone knew what a mess the current state of VR Games was.

Perhaps Shuo Guang was indeed a highly capable developer.

But that did not mean he was Superman.

Even major foreign studios made VR Games into a complete mess. What could he possibly make on his own?!

Even if he hired employees to develop one with him, so what?

Those foreign studios claimed to have experienced teams of hundreds, yet their games were still a mess.

Not to mention that his would be finished in just one month?

The development time for any random game was longer than a month, alright?!

Grab anyone off the street and ask whether they would believe it.

Unless Shuo Guang had already had a team and had been secretly developing it for a very, very long time!

Otherwise, he could not possibly sound so certain.

If that were really the case, then Dark Forest was very likely not developed by him alone!

But in the end, it was all just speculation without any solid evidence.

The game company information found online did indeed show that Shuo Guang was the only person there, with no employees and zero people insured.

So everyone decided to wait and see.

"Can someone with a massive dick spoil whether this is real or fake?"

"A VR Game in one month? I may not be well educated, but I'm not an idiot!"

"Don't lie to us filthy gamers, damn it!"

"Even famous major studios can't make this stuff, and you're saying your little unknown company can?"

"I hope the official team doesn't mess with something even industry veterans can't figure out. Wouldn't it be better to just make PC games properly? You can make tens of millions in a single day, yet you insist on doing VR. If the quality is too poor, it'll seriously ruin your reputation and goodwill."

"Don't do VR! Don't touch that reputation-destroying stuff! That foreign major studio lost a fortune making VR games. I still want to see Dark Forest 2—I don't want to see you guys disband!"

"Whoa, the person above is already making prophecies, huh?"

The news about a VR Game being released in one month continued to be discussed online for quite a while.

But Meng Shu, far away in Shencheng, knew nothing about it. At that moment, he was cleaning pork intestines, with wrapped dumplings and pork trotters beside him.

He was about to start preparing dinner.

Meng Shu smiled. Whenever he thought of the game's sales, he could not help feeling excited.

Its first-day sales had surpassed 240,000 and were still steadily rising. He truly had not expected such a result.

He had earned 16.56 million yuan in just one day.

After deducting the thirty percent cut, he had actually received 11.59 million yuan.

And that was only one day's sales!

One day!

He had become worth over ten million!

So, to celebrate, Meng Shu began making things his parents loved but rarely got to eat.

His mother in this world especially loved dumplings.

However, because she was usually too busy with work and had no time to make them, she had not eaten any for over a year.

Meng Shu had specially wrapped more than sixty today. Every one of them was plump and full of filling, and he had personally chopped the meat by hand rather than using a meat grinder.

He had also chopped carrots and water chestnuts into the filling, then sprinkled in minced scallions before wrapping them. That was how they became more refreshing and delicate to eat.

They would not have the obvious greasy, sinewy texture of meat ground up in a machine.

Then there was his father. In his memories, they always ate pork trotters during the New Year.

The satisfying vigor of gnawing on them remained unforgettable.

As for the pork intestines, Meng Xiaoran had especially disliked them back when she was still in middle school, saying that they smelled too strong. So their father had gradually stopped eating them.

But Meng Shu knew very clearly that his father really wanted to eat them.

There had even been times when they returned home together and Meng Shu saw his father staring at the braised pork intestines at a street stall, unable to look away.

But Meng Shu had been too immature then to understand what that meant.

Now, though, things were different.

Today, he would make braised pork trotters and dry-fried pork intestines for his father in this world.

As for little Meng—

A plate of braised chicken wings would be enough to keep her happy.

While preparing the ingredients, Meng Shu took the opportunity to browse the system store for a suitable game to use as a template.

On the attribute panel, the number of people frightened under Dark Forest had risen from 67,000 to 239,000.

That meant that out of the 240,000 people who had bought the game, 239,000 had been scared by it.

His Fear Points had also risen from 143,000 to 568,000.

With such a huge fortune in hand, Meng Shu entered the store on the spot while still riding his excitement and began selecting a game.

He obviously could not develop a VR Game alone.

Art assets and original music composition all required manpower. The system would not keep giving those things to him for free, and he could not possibly handle everything by himself.

Not to mention porting the game to console platforms.

So hiring people had become inevitable.

Furthermore, if he wanted to make a VR Game within one month—

Then the game could not be too large, and it needed to be entertaining enough.

He needed a game that was small but polished, fun, and not easy to get tired of.

And such a game...

Meng Shu's gaze fell upon an expansion pack for a blockbuster title.

His target was instantly decided.

Resident Evil 7's DLC.

21 Points!