Chapter 31 Right on the Mark

This happened to be Zhang Kong’s workstation, the same spot where Lü Mingliang had previously sat.

Pei Qian led Tang Yishu to the workstation and said, “This is your workstation from now on. Just sit here when you’re not busy, and do whatever you feel like.”

“Alright, go take care of Yintang for now.”

Tang Yishu nodded and quietly started gathering the cat food and litter box.

Li Yada and many other employees also liked Yintang quite a bit. However, Yintang had just arrived in a new environment and was clearly uncomfortable. It quickly hid behind a money tree and refused to come out.

Everyone watched for a while before returning to their workstations to continue working.

Pei Qian paid special attention to Bao Xu’s condition and found that he was still seriously playing games, not even glancing at Yintang as it walked past his feet. He was extremely focused.

President Pei was very pleased with this.

However, just as Pei Qian was about to return to his office, he saw Li Yada answer a call and say in surprise, “Ah? They’re not selling the copyright???”

Pei Qian immediately stopped and asked, pretending to be concerned, “What’s wrong?”

Li Yada hung up, looking speechless. “Uh… it’s nothing.”

“We were in talks with a domestic copyright holder about the IP for a character from an old animation. Everything was going well, but they suddenly called and said… they’re not selling anymore.”

Pei Qian: “Huh? Why aren’t they selling?”

Li Yada was also confused. “I don’t know. They just said the original author doesn’t want to sell, so they’re not selling, even if we offer more money…”

Pei Qian couldn’t help but feel amazed.

Look, look!

The effect was immediate!

Just bringing Tang Yishu back had turned their luck around.

Pei Qian tried to suppress his pleasant mood and consoled her, “It’s okay, if they don’t want to sell, they don’t want to sell. Buying IP is all about fate.”

“If we can’t buy enough IP characters, we can always create original characters!”

“Our company has so many employees. We can just pick a few and use them as the prototypes for the heroes in the game, it’ll be great.”

Pei Qian thought, since this game was just going to be cannon fodder for IOI anyway and was destined to lose money, they might as well let the employees have some fun and turn themselves into the heroes. How wonderful!

Li Yada thought for a moment. “Then, President Pei, can I put you in the game?”

Pei Qian nodded. “Of course, you can!”

Li Yada added, “We might make some artistic modifications and reimagine the image. Is that okay too?”

Pei Qian waved his hand. “No problem, no problem at all! You can do whatever you want.”

“Alright!” Li Yada happily returned to her workstation.

Pei Qian glanced at Tang Yishu, who was busy feeding Yintang, and returned to his office, satisfied.

Li Yada, on the other hand, opened a new document, determined to design an exclusive hero for President Pei right away.

First of all, the hero’s role should be a tank.

Because President Pei was like a big tree, his towering figure shielding Tengda’s employees from the wind and rain.

Therefore, the hero should be set to be tall, strong, and reliable.

President Pei always strived for perfection in quality and never hesitated to spend money.

Therefore, his passive skill should be the ability to use extra money to craft more powerful equipment.

President Pei was an entrepreneur with dreams. He always entered unpopular, sunset industries in an upright manner, working diligently in those areas and reaping the rewards with his talent.

The more his competitors and online trolls slandered him, the greater his achievements would be.

So his first skill should have both active and passive effects.

The passive effect would allow him to accumulate bounties by last-hitting, symbolizing his diligent work in a certain field.

When attacked to a certain degree and obtaining kill assists, the accumulated bounty would be converted into extra money.

And when attacked from behind, there would be a certain chance to ignite his fighting spirit, increasing his defense and scattering a large amount of golden attack effects around him, dealing damage and a slight slowing effect to enemies.

Actively releasing the skill could also create the same effect.

President Pei strictly controlled time and never allowed employees to work overtime. He would force employees who secretly worked overtime out of the office area.

Therefore, President Pei’s second skill should be to knock back enemies in a fan-shaped area and prevent anyone from entering that area again for a period of time.

President Pei was passionate about exploring new fields, and one excellent employee after another went to take charge of new businesses and achieved remarkable success.

Therefore, President Pei’s third skill should be to throw a friendly unit a certain distance, dealing a small amount of damage and slowing effects to enemy units in the area upon landing.

Finally, the reason President Pei was able to constantly become stronger and make progress was because of his constant self-discipline.

Therefore, President Pei’s ultimate move was self-discipline, greatly increasing his movement speed, increasing his health and resistance, while frequently dealing small amounts of damage to himself from behind, which could frequently trigger the passive effect of his first skill.

Afterward, Li Yada decided to design a unique image for President Pei.

Since he was a tank hero, his figure must be tall and majestic. He should be a tall giant with broad shoulders and powerful arms.

At the same time, since he was often maliciously slandered by enemies from behind, his back should be covered with various weapons, including knives, swords, daggers, spears, and so on.

The feeling should be like a thousand-handed Guanyin radiating Buddha light or a peacock Mingwang with both divine and demonic qualities.

When attacked from behind, this hero should constantly release golden weapon attack effects around him.

Finally, there was the hero’s name.

Justice Guardian: Modest!

Modest was just that, modest. Li Yada believed that President Pei was a humble person, and this word could well express his noble character.

After reviewing the design, Li Yada was very satisfied.

“Well, I’ll get the original art done as soon as possible. I believe President Pei will be very happy to see his exclusive hero appear in GoG, right?”

However, Li Yada also knew that players might not call this hero "Justice Guardian" or "Modest." They would most likely give him a new nickname.

“I just wonder what players will call this hero?”

“I’m so looking forward to GoG launching soon.”

…

In the office, Pei Qian was watching a drama while listening carefully to the noises outside.

“Yintang, come here, I’ll give you some dried fish!”

“Hey? Why is our water dispenser suddenly leaking? Quick, call for repairs!”

“Damn it, how did the bug we just fixed reappear…”

“Have the art resource requests been submitted? I’ll modify them again…”

Normal work exchanges were interspersed with strange conversations from time to time.

Pei Qian couldn’t help but sigh. Tang Yishu’s aura effect was really immediate!

Okay, let her continue to play a role in the company like this, just having her sit in the company when she has nothing to do. Maybe this effect can accumulate and produce a qualitative change or something?

…

Tang Yishu placed the litter box, food bowl, water bowl, and everything else in place. She watched Yintang scratch around in the litter box for a long time before finally urinating. Only then did she carefully return to her workstation and sit down.

When passing by other people’s workstations, Tang Yishu carefully avoided them, as if afraid that getting too close would bring bad luck.

Fortunately, Tengda’s desks were particularly wide and the workstations were far apart, so Tang Yishu didn’t feel too cramped.

She carefully sat down in the office chair, surprised by how comfortable it was. She cautiously leaned back and then shrank back into a ball, feeling a little embarrassed.

She had used computers in her school’s computer class, but she had never seen such impressive dual-screen monitors. The huge desktop felt almost overwhelming.

She carefully tapped the keyboard, which immediately made a crisp and pleasant “click” sound, scaring her into retracting her hand.

This sound was much louder than the keyboards in the computer class.

However, after seeing the people around her rapidly typing on the keyboard and writing documents, Tang Yishu reached for the keyboard and mouse again and opened a webpage to look up the homework assigned by her computer class teacher.

The computer had all kinds of games installed, but Tang Yishu didn’t recognize any of the colorful desktop icons. She just went online silently.

After a while, she would turn her head to look at Yintang. After seeing the little black cat playing with the office greenery, she relaxed and turned her attention back to the computer.

At this moment, a girl with a round face and big eyes came to her side. “Hello? Tang Yishu, right?”

Tang Yishu quickly stood up. “Hello.”

Hao Yun smiled. “Oh, don’t stand up. I’m Hao Yun from the Human Resources Department. This is your internship contract.”

“The monthly salary is 3,000 yuan. There are no requirements for working hours. Take a look, and if there are no problems, just sign it.”

Tang Yishu took the internship contract and read it from beginning to end.

The content of this contract was very simple. There were no pitfalls or traps. Other than the salary of 3,000 yuan being a bit too high, there were no other problems.

Tang Yishu looked up at Hao Yun. “The money… is a little too much.”

Hao Yun smiled. “It’s not much. This is Tengda’s normal salary level.”

Seeing Tang Yishu sign the contract, Hao Yun took out a stack of money from her pocket, all hundred-yuan bills, ten in total.

“President Pei asked me to give you this advance salary. Go buy yourself a thick coat. It’s getting colder, and although the company’s heating is warm, the temperature difference between inside and outside is big, so it’s easy to catch a cold.”

“Have lunch with us in the employee cafeteria. Moyu Takeaway’s food is very delicious.” (Moyu Takeaway = touching fish takeaway)

“Okay, okay.” Tang Yishu nodded quickly, feeling a little overwhelmed.

Although the clothes she was wearing were thin, her heart felt warm.

This shouldn’t just be because of the office’s warm air.

…

…

November 26th, Friday.

Pei Qian took a car to the filming location of *A Beautiful Tomorrow*.

The movie was being filmed in a studio in Jingzhou. Since there weren’t many large-scale scenes in the entire movie, if you broke it down, there were just a few simple scenes:

The capsule space where the male lead lived, including the large screen in the space;

Exterior shots of the futuristic city space;

The talent show scene;

The male lead’s mansion…

These scenes weren’t difficult to create. As long as the costumes, makeup, and props for each character were exquisite, and the set design was futuristic, that would be enough.

Some of the more complex scenes would simply be shot against a green screen, and special effects would be added later. Anyway, there wouldn’t be many places that needed special effects.

The capsule space where the male lead lived was quickly set up. A large part of the male lead’s scenes took place in this setting, and they were all solo performances.

Because the scene was simple and easy to film, it naturally had a high priority.

While many other scenes were still being built, filming could begin here.

After arriving at the set, Pei Qian found Zhu Xiaoce and went to the filming location.

Many staff members were busy, and Pei Qian didn’t know what they were all doing, so he didn’t dare to ask too many questions. He just quietly followed behind Zhu Xiaoce.

Zhu Xiaoce probably thought that President Pei was here to inspect the work, so he perked up and directed the staff to do their jobs and prepare.

In fact, Pei Qian was here just to watch. After all, he had never seen a movie being made and felt it was very new.

It was said that before filming began, the crew would worship the gods and burn incense, but Pei Qian didn’t see it, and he didn’t care about that.

He simply wanted to join in the fun and see if he could create some setbacks for the filming of this movie.