Earth 2.0 Launch

Ms. Lim still couldn't believe it after reading the email for the 3rd time. Her boss's instruction was very simple, open long position,

sell XX/US$ buy

sell XX/GBP buy

sell XX/CHF buy

sell XX/AB$ buy

sell XX/CD$ buy

sell XX/FG$ buy

sell XX/HJ buy

sell XX/KL buy

sell XX/MN buy

sell XX/OP buy

use $500m to trade EQUALLY. Set it auto close trading on 13 Nov 2030, 11:00 am.

"Where do I find the $500m?" She was talking to herself alone. Even the staggering $500m still shocked her.

She checked the company account and to her surprise, the balance was at $972m. She remembered the balance was at $11m yesterday, and with the company's huge expenses every month, the $11m will be wiped out soon.

If no fresh money comes into the company account, she plans to ask her boss the location of the jackpot-winning ticket again. Evidently, she is just wasting her time worrying about the company's financial situation.

Right now, close to $1 billion cash is sitting inside the company account. Even if she uses the $500m to trade, there is still $472m left for the company. For the past month, Ms. Lim has been quite busy. She even forgot to check on the 4 trading accounts. Since it was set up in auto-closed trading on a specific date and time, no monitoring was needed from her side.

Looking at the 4 accounts trading history, she was shocked for the second time today. All the accounts that started with an initial $20m investment, became $955 in slightly over a month! This is much more profitable than winning a mega lottery every month.

Ms. Lim followed the coded email instructions before deleting it. $500m was invested in the forex market on a specific currency. Investing a massive amount of cash in a specific currency will raise a few eyebrows from the market watch and security. Zhang Wei knew about the protocol, so he already prepared a few reputable answers for Ms. Lim to use later in the future.

Today there will be a final meeting before the E2.0 launches. Ms. Lim, as the company's CEO, will give a final talk to the 1000 employees. Meanwhile, on the other side, Zhang Wei will have a short meeting with Sui Jianguo, Yen Qiang, and Gan Li.

On the same day, Wong Fook Yong, Zhu Ling, and Jing Mei Chen received the final instruction before the launch. They were quite surprised to see the detailed instructions, especially Jing Mei.

Jing Mei has been tasked to create a new research company under the AOSIS group called AOSIS Science, Research and Development Division. She will become the CEO of this new company wing. What was more amazing, she was given a large number of start-up funds $100,000,000.00! She almost fell looking at the number with so many zeros.

8:00 am, Nov 01, 2030. Earth 2.0 Is Launched.

Zhang Wei was in his apartment. Since yesterday, the counter for the E2.0 launch date has been a major talking point. Television, Newspaper, Magazine, Online Media, Community Forum, Gaming Forum local or international mostly covering the E2.0.

There has never been a game opening being so hyped before compared to E2.0. This is unprecedented, the first ever online game garnering so much attention globally. Many professional teams around the world publicly announced that they will join the game. All of this is happening because of the previous day's E2.0 company major update announcement.

The first player to reach level 10,20,30,40,50 and above for any level, class, and job will receive special in-game items and coins worth $10,000.

The first player to kill Boss Monster will receive special in-game items and coins worth $10,000.

The first player to become a Baron, Viscount, and so on will receive special in-game items and coins worth $10,000.

The first player to own a town will receive special in-game items and coins worth $100,000.

The first player to own a city will receive special in-game items and coins worth $100,000.

The first player to get an epic, unique, legendary item will receive special in-game items and coins worth $50,000, $100,000, and $1,000,000 respectively.

And so on….

The company listed around 1000 awards and the highest prize was $10,000,000. They also stated that the total number of awards exceeds 100,000! This mind-blowing number of awards really made the public went crazy, especially the gaming communities. Everyone wants to be the first person to get the awards at least once.

The game will kick off at 11:00 am Nov 01. A lot of players have been preparing and waiting for this day. Many used their hard-earned cash to buy the game helmet or took the day off just to play the game.

10 minutes before the game was officially open to the public, Zhang Wei, Sui Jianguo, Yen Qiang, and Gan Li were lying down in their respective game official capsules.

Meanwhile, the third floor of the AOSIS building turned into a quiet floor. 1000 company employees were lying down inside their respective capsules. They have been given very fine details of tasks and they must complete them in the given time frame.

11:00 am Nov 01. 2030. Officially Earth 2.0 Launched.

NPC Rose: Welcome Player to Earth 2.0. Please choose your AVATAR.

Zhang Wei selected a human race avatar.

NPC Rose: Please select your class.

Zhang Wei selected a neutral class. This is the worst class in the game and any player using a neutral class will be left behind. Nobody wants to party with this class due to its restriction. However, nobody knew the secret of the class besides Zhang Wei.

NPC Rose: Please select your body and features resembling rate.

Zhang Wei chose 80%. There were only four choices, 100%, 80%, 60%, and 40%. 100% resembling rate will create a copy of your real face and body features as the game Avatar.

NPC Rose: Scanning… Scanning completed. Now please choose your In-Game Name.

Zhang Wei typed "KheMeia"

NPC Rose: Please select your starting location.

Zhang Wei selected human world Azfield Beginner Town. A month ago, the game company released a digital guidebook for free. Anyone who has read the digital guide book will be able to plan ahead with their in-game avatar, character, starting location, and so on.

Today, on its launch day, over 100 starting locations are available for players to choose from. Zhang Wei, Sui Jianguo, Yen Qiang, and Gan Li all chose Azfield Town as their starting location.

NPC Rose: Good luck player KheMeia. If you have any questions regarding the game, please check the Earth 2.0 digital guidebook or go to the official community forum. Thank you and have fun playing Earth 2.0. The Best Game Ever.

At first, the company boldly claimed that E2.0, the best game in history, made many people laugh. However, gradually players found out the game's hidden features really made the public surprised.

Day 1, Azfield Town, Nov 1, 2030.

Zhang Wei appeared on the spawning location just outside the Azfield Town south gate. He looked around and to his amazement, there were over a thousand new players around him and the number kept on increasing. It was many more compared to the restricted beta run.

Without waiting any longer, he ran straight to the leveling spot in the middle of the map, hitting a level 1 Red Eyed Rabbit. Even though both of them are level one, he clearly had more advantages than a level 1 monster. In addition to that, he is not the only one hitting the Red Eyes Rabbit, another 2 players were hitting the same Red Eyes Rabbit.

The game allowed steal kills even though they didn't promote it. As a result, a level 1 monster gang-bang by 3 players died in just a few hits. The experience gained is shared among the players, but anyone who gives more damage will get more experience.

Zhang Wei looked at his experience bar and saw 5% of experience gained from 1 Red Eyes Rabbit. So he started killing any Red Eyed Rabbit he could see with his knife provided by the system. With other new players' "help", he was getting quick exp (experience) compared to leveling alone (hitting the monster alone).

Each Red Eyed Rabbit was killed in less than 10 seconds. The map was big, but the Red Eyes Rabbit spawned immediately in a random location mid of the map after being killed. With thousands of players killing the same monster, finding the Red Eyed Rabbit was an easy task.

After a while, Zhang Wei was able to reach level 2 in less than 6 minutes. He put all his newly gained 2 stat points into STR (Strength) for more damage. By having 3 STR, he could solo the Red Eyes Rabbit and kill it with 4 hits or 2 critical hits. With other players 'help" (steal kill) and his damages, he was able to reach level 3 in 5 minutes.

Zhang Wei ran to the east side of the map looking for the level 2 monsters. The large map comprised 4 types of monsters. Middle map where level 1 monster is located, the east side is where level 2 monster is located, southern map where level 3 monster is located and lastly the west side of the map where level 4 monster is located.

Zhang Wei reached the area for level 2 monster and there are already over a hundred players leveling here. Most of the players here had formed a party to kill the level 2 monster.

"Hello, would you like to join our group?"