Chapter 546: Chat Rooms

Of the fifty chat rooms currently in "Magic House," the forty-eight full ones are naturally all fake.

Sun Cheng programmed this software to cover up the lie he had told previously.

For an organization established for at least several decades to a hundred years, it is naturally impossible for 【P·C·F】 to only have a few hundred people, all of whom were just invited to join recently.

These first forty-eight "full" chat rooms exist for this very purpose, and it is unlikely that anyone will ever be able to join them in the future.

Looking at the "Magic House" chat software, which had only two chat rooms with active people, Sun Cheng pondered for a moment and entered the chat room noted as 【North American Chinese Exchange Room 17】 first.

The more than two hundred users currently invited to "Magic House" were all screened by Frenzy through hacking the internet, selected from recruitment and university websites in Xia Country and North America, including mid-to-high-level technical personnel, technical management staff, university professors, Associate Professors, and so on.

However, he seemed to have underestimated human nature.

The progress of the layout in North America was not very good; since Sun Cheng programmed the "Magic House" software, he had sent invitations to over one thousand Chinese Americans, but unfortunately, the vast majority of those who received his invitation ignored Sun Cheng entirely.

Even the dozens of Chinese Americans who joined the chat room out of curiosity were very cautious in their daily interactions.

Sun Cheng understood this to some extent; in order to suppress the rising Xia Country, the Americans had often engaged in sting operations in the past, and many Chinese technical personnel had fallen victim to them.

Moreover, among second and third-generation Chinese immigrants, there are plenty of "yellow skin, white heart" individuals.

One Chinese technical expert in Big Apple City, whom Sun Cheng had invited into 【North American Chinese Exchange Room 17】, actually turned around and sold the chat room to the FBI.

If it weren't for the fact that he never easily trusts people, Sun Cheng would have already planted a very dangerous Trojan horse inside when he programmed the initial version of "Magic House."

Later, after several upgrades by Frenzy, once the Trojan horse inside the "Magic House" client is awakened, it will destructively format all data on the phone or computer where "Magic House" is installed.

Even so, after this incident occurred, Sun Cheng still paused invitations to Chinese people across the United States, while consolidating the dozens of people initially lured into the chat rooms and switching to selecting Chinese people from neighboring Canada and Mexico to join.

The Chinese immigrants in Canada and Mexico are clearly incomparable to those in the United States in terms of both quantity and quality.

Over the past period, after some picking and choosing by Frenzy, only a few dozen more were added.

After clicking to enter 【North American Chinese Exchange Room 17】, what met Sun Cheng's eyes was dead silence.

There were only three or four people chatting in the room, three of whom were from Canada and one from Mexico, and the content of their chat was actually about the weather.

When Sun Cheng entered the chat room, the prompt "Administrator is online" would appear above the chat bar, but no one tried to chat with him.

The atmosphere in this chat room was not very good; it was a bit oppressive, and it is estimated that it will not change in the short term.

The layout of the chat room was somewhat similar to a Panda OO chat group, with the chat area on the left occupying nearly seventy percent of the entire chat room interface.

The right side was divided into upper and lower parts; the smaller upper part was the function area, which only contained two icons: "Task" and "Mall."

The lower part on the right was the member list. "Magic House" is an anonymous chat room, and all members who join must choose an ID for themselves; other than Sun Cheng, the administrator, no one knows their real-life identities.

It is precisely because of this that those members who had already joined the group did not all run away.

Of course, Sun Cheng felt that this should also have something to do with the two functions in the function area.

"Frenzy, open the chat room's Task and Mall interfaces."

After Frenzy popped up the "Task" and "Mall" interfaces in the chat room's function area, Sun Cheng took a look at each, and a smile finally appeared on the corners of his mouth.

The "Task" function interface had tasks he specifically posted; there were only two pages totaling one hundred tasks, with varying levels of difficulty, covering dozens of different fields from mechanical manufacturing, microelectronics, and semiconductors to power integration, and all members in the chat room could choose to accept them anonymously.

For these one hundred tasks, every time someone completes one, Frenzy will add another one according to the question bank Sun Cheng left behind, keeping the total number at one hundred at all times.

After the recipient accepts a task, they have anywhere from one week to half a year to complete it, and upon completion, they can receive point rewards.

Points can be used to increase one's level in the chat room or to purchase desired products in the "Mall."

Sun Cheng set up many types of products in the "Mall," including luxury cars, famous watches, many advanced technologies, and even relatively direct cash exchange options.

For example, to increase the group members' trust in "Magic House," he specifically posted some tasks with low difficulty coefficients in the "Task Area" of each chat room, which could earn 1-10 points upon completion.

And one point could be exchanged for one Bitcoin in the Mall.

In Europe and America, due to the pursuit of capital, especially speculative capital, Bitcoin had long been accepted by the tech circle and had become a valuable virtual currency.

The real-time price of one Bitcoin today, as it was about to enter the year 2017, had shockingly been hyped up to a sky-high price of one thousand and fifty US dollars.

Sun Cheng really couldn't understand how this virtual currency was hyped up, but by using the computing power of his Decepticons, which far exceeded human supercomputers, he could have as much Bitcoin as he wanted.

Since some people treat it as money, he didn't mind linking it one-way to the chat room points, which even saved him a sum of money.

Because he had been too busy over the past period, Sun Cheng hadn't logged into "Magic House" for about a week.

However, after logging in this time, he discovered that more than thirty of the tasks he had posted in 【North American Chinese Exchange Room 17】 had been accepted, and as many as nineteen had been completed.

As for the points earned, most of the completers chose to exchange them for Bitcoin in the "Mall," but there were still three people whose chat room points had accumulated to over 10.

Sun Cheng pulled up the task and exchange records of these three people and discovered that they had also exchanged for Bitcoin several times in the past.

They could be considered the first batch of people in the chat room to "eat the crab," and from their previous experiences, they had gradually established preliminary trust in "Magic House," or rather, the operating party behind "Magic House" that called itself the "Progressive Chinese Federation."

That was enough!

As long as they still had desires, Sun Cheng was confident that sooner or later, he would pull them all onto his chariot.