Chapter 83: Opportunity
Su Can looked at the time displayed on the Bentley's LCD screen and could not help feeling a little wistful. "It's December 2001 already."
"Yes." Lin Guangdong smiled. After all, who could have imagined a few years ago that, before long, they would be driving a Bentley through the streets and lanes of Shanghai?
"I heard you play games. What have you been playing?" Su Can turned his head.
Lin Guangdong smiled a little awkwardly. "It really is a good way to relax, and pretty cost-effective. Back in Rongcheng, I often went to business gatherings. To make connections, I even got a tennis club membership. I played tennis, went fishing, all that, but basically, it was all about discussing distribution channels and business. After talking so much, I didn't really feel like saying anything when I got home. Sometimes I felt that entering a virtual world and playing games was a pretty good pastime. There, I don't have to think about how to communicate with people to gain something, how to phrase things, or where to draw the line. Playing games is more relaxing that way. As for what I'm playing, a newly released graphical MUD game is pretty popular right now."
Online games had already been developing in China for several years, but Lin Guangdong's initial impression of them had remained at the stage of purely text-based MUD games. Graphical MUDs had only begun to flourish over the past two years, and many text-only MUD games had started developing into graphical online games. From the moment graphical online games revealed their appeal, they were destined to become the mainstream of the future gaming world.
They had also drawn many people who had never touched a game before into playing online games-casual players like Lin Guangdong, for