Chapter 1 Coincident Encounter

Moyu Internet Cafe, Handong University Branch.

Chen Kangtuo and Hao Qiong sat in the coffee area, silently sipping their coffees, at a loss for words.

Both of them were completely dumbfounded.

Their experiences were quite similar.

On Tuesday, they were both working diligently, Chen Kangtuo on GoG and Hao Qiong on *BeQuiet*, seriously revising their design plans.

Today, they had both been kicked out of the company and were now at Moyu Internet Cafe, speechless.

When they first heard the news of their transfer, they were equally shocked and confused.

Had they done something wrong?

It didn't seem like it; this was clearly a promotion, with both their rank and salary increased.

But could they really be happy about this?

Neither of them could muster any joy.

Because President Pei had only said that he wanted to build a haunted house in the old industrial district of Jingzhou City, and they should just invest ten million yuan in it.

But there were no other clues!

How much land to rent, which factories to renovate, what kind of plan to use, how many employees to hire…

All of these things were at zero progress.

In other words, although President Pei said he was going to invest ten million yuan to build a haunted house, so far, apart from the ten million yuan and Chen Kangtuo and Hao Qiong, there was nothing else.

This… was extremely perplexing.

After learning that the other was currently the only colleague on this project, they decided to meet at Moyu Internet Cafe to discuss their next steps.

They both thought that the other had more information than they did, and had received special instructions from President Pei.

However, they soon realized that they were both equally clueless.

President Pei hadn't said anything!

So, they could only drink coffee in silence.

After a long silence, Chen Kangtuo decided to break the ice.

After all, President Pei valued him so much, entrusting him with a ten-million-yuan project, he couldn't let President Pei down.

Chen Kangtuo thought for a moment and said, "Starting tomorrow, I'll post job postings online, recruit people with relevant industry experience, and also contact a construction team. We have to get the design plan out somehow."

Hao Qiong nodded, "Well, *BeQuiet* has some ready-made art assets, and we also collected some materials from playing horror games before. We can consider using them in the haunted house design…"

The two of them drank coffee and discussed the project, constantly discussing the various details.

To be honest, under the two's discussion, a rough framework for the haunted house project emerged.

However, although they had thought of various aspects of the problem, they both felt like something was still missing.

It felt like the discussion wasn't grounded enough.

Chen Kangtuo frowned, racking his brains, "What exactly is missing?"

Hao Qiong considered for a long time, then suddenly slapped her forehead, "I've got it!"

"It's President Pei's guidance!"

"We can do without anything else, but we absolutely can't do without President Pei's guidance!"

"I don't know if you remember, but the success of most of Tenda's projects is within President Pei's plan."

"Many times, President Pei only points out a few simple directions. But as long as we follow this direction to constantly deduce, we can find the right path!"

"President Pei hasn't made any guiding comments on the haunted house project so far."

"We must first figure out President Pei's attitude towards this project before we can decide on a specific plan!"

Chen Kangtuo suddenly understood, "I see!"

He had never been a person in charge before. President Pei usually assigned tasks directly to Li Yada, so Chen Kangtuo had never considered these issues.

But fortunately, Hao Qiong had heard Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin talk about the standardized process of understanding President Pei's spirit, so she keenly noticed this blind spot.

"In short, let's carry out the preliminary preparations first, recruit more people, or ask President Pei for more manpower."

"Then, we'll find an opportunity to ask President Pei for his opinion on this project."

"Understanding President Pei's intentions will greatly increase the success rate of this project!"

The somewhat confusing project, after the two's discussion, seemed to have a vague direction.

This general direction was President Pei's guidance.

Both of them firmly believed that as long as they could obtain President Pei's guidance, all of these problems would definitely be solved!

…

…

December 10th, Friday.

Tenda Network Technology Co., Ltd.

"Brother Bao, GoG has a new version, can you take a look at it again?"

Looking at the message sent by Li Yada, Bao Xu silently sighed.

Ah, this is tough.

Having been developed up to now, GoG can be considered to have a rough prototype. Although the game is still a complete mess in all aspects, at least it can run.

After all, with *Shen Qi* (Inspiration) as a highly complete ready-made game for reference, it is not too difficult for GoG to build a large framework in a short period of time.

But in terms of the current degree of completion, it is still far behind.

Bao Xu secretly played GoG while no one was paying attention, and then found a lot of shortcomings.

Many bugs.

Poor balance.

No new gameplay.

Too few heroes…

In short, it was worlds apart from *Shen Qi*.

Bao Xu was in a dilemma.

If he ignored it, Li Yada would probably not be able to handle these problems on her own.

If he managed it, he seemed to see the African savanna and the Sahara Desert beckoning to him.

After weighing it again and again, Bao Xu sighed and opened the editor again, secretly modifying it.

"Forget it, I can't stand by and watch."

"Help one last time?"

"However, it's not a solution to keep doing this. I can't solve all the similar experience problems, can I?"

Bao Xu was also a little helpless. Although the other designers in the entire design team have been playing games and enriching their game experience, game IQ is not something that can be cultivated overnight.

As a hardcore player, Bao Xu's sensitivity to games is unmatched by others.

Therefore, some very high-end work, such as adjusting the game balance, can only be handled by Bao Xu.

Of course, numerical planners can also do this, but Bao Xu often needs to check it at the end.

Single-player games that do not require so much balance are fine, but GoG is a multiplayer online battle game, so balance is crucial.

Bao Xu thought about it and felt that he couldn't go on like this.

Too dangerous!

He had to find a way to delegate this job as soon as possible and let others help him bear it.

If he couldn't find such a person in the company, where should he look?

Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and thought of a way.

Moyu Internet Cafe is Tenda's own property, can it be used slightly?

Putting the test version of GoG on Moyu Internet Cafe, in this way, the customers of Moyu Internet Cafe can act as the game's test players. After experiencing the game, they can leave their opinions and suggestions.

Of course, this will also bring certain problems, for example, the game's information may be leaked in advance, causing spoilers.

But for games like GoG, it's not a big problem.

To put it bluntly, it is to set up a special game test server in Moyu Internet Cafe to collect player data, and modify the game through these data information.

Bao Xu immediately sent a message to Li Yada.

Let the players of Moyu Internet Cafe also participate. Bao Xu feels that even if it cannot be completely liberated, at least 80% can be liberated!

…

…

Yuanmeng Venture Capital.

Ma Yang didn't come today; he had classes.

Moreover, since Ma Yang unhesitatingly invested all his money into Finger Company last time, Yuanmeng Venture Capital has no money to invest in other projects.

Everyone's daily work is just playing games with President Ma.

Although President Ma is frantically carrying every game, killing gods in all kinds of ways, these "high-end games" will become boring after a while.

Recently, Ma Yang has been a little bored, so he doesn't come to Yuanmeng Venture Capital often.

He Desheng, and the other high-scoring masters, are now gathered together, discussing issues with serious expressions.

"President Ma's happiness threshold is getting higher and higher."

"After a while, I'm afraid he will lose interest in our 'nine protecting one' strategy."

"What to do?"

He Desheng raised a very sharp question.

An important job for these high-scoring masters is to play games with President Ma, so that he can maintain a relaxed and happy mood and maintain the best working state.

In the beginning, President Ma could kill high-scoring masters more than a dozen times in every game, carrying alone, of course he was very happy.

But slowly, the threshold of happiness became higher and higher.

Simply killing people can no longer satisfy President Ma.

Frequent victories have also become uninteresting.

After all, in Ma Yang's view, the experience of each game is becoming more and more similar.

Even if the other nine people in the game have arranged the script in advance, and try their best to act according to the script and try to make the game experience that each game brings to President Ma different…

But after a long time, it will still be boring.

Now, everyone is gathered together to discuss how to solve this problem.

"I don't think this is because we don't have imagination, nor is it because President Ma's level is not good."

"The only thing to blame is that the game mechanism is not good!"

"The current game mechanism is a bit complicated and quite unfriendly to players with disabilities."

"President Ma is being targeted by the game, and it is difficult to exert 100% of his strength."

"In order to cooperate with President Ma, we can only suppress our level to the same level as him, and the performance is naturally very fake."

"If this continues, President Ma will find out sooner or later, it's only a matter of time."

A buddy next to him also nodded: "That's right, I agree! I also think President Ma is being targeted by the game."

"As long as we change the game mechanism a bit, President Ma's strength will definitely be better!"

"Then what should we do? We are not designers, we can't change the game mechanism." Someone said.

Someone raised their hand and suggested: "We really can't change *Shen Qi*, but… should we be able to change *IOI*?"

He Desheng thought for a while: "It's hard to say. We only bought shares in Finger Company, and we can't interfere with their R&D and operation."

"We can make some suggestions to them as shareholders and domestic agents, as for whether they will listen… it's really uncertain."

"Let's try it."