Chen Changsheng recruited so many college students as temporary workers precisely for their imagination, using it to construct a fantasy realm suited to this world. Imagination was something the Mechanical Emperor lacked—and what Chen Changsheng was most short of.
Anything that relied on imagination consumed the most brainpower. It was what people called filling in the gaps. Even with high-performance computers assisting them, the workers' brains still had to be linked up and squeezed for their biological computing power.
So the claim that they only worked for one hour but got paid for eight was complete nonsense, because they had not only worked ten hours in the virtual world.
They also needed to rest for another hour in the real world before they could recover. Overall, though, it was still a good deal. After adding up all the time, they had only effectively worked two hours in reality.
With so many college students joining him, Chen Changsheng's virtual world became increasingly complete, and more and more people learned about it. Even though experiencing the virtual world cost a fortune per hour, it still did not stop people from coming in an endless stream.
Most people who truly experienced the virtual world discovered that they could no longer live without it. For children from wealthy families, this naturally was not a problem. They simply had to spend money to buy time. For the poor, however, it was like taking drugs, setting them on a path of no return.
Since Chen Changsheng himself was the foreman providing the jobs, he naturally allowed them to work in the virtual world in exchange for time there.
In just a few months, Chen Changsheng's Umbrella Corporation officially moved from an apartment into a skyscraper. But do not misunderstand—this was not because Chen Changsheng had already