owlsbooks Chapter 69 "The Expedition Team"
Chapter 69 "The Expedition Team"
"Are all the testing procedures ready?"
"Don't worry, everything is ready. The program has been made into a small pendant, so it won't be detected by them."
Since the last meeting, "Playworld" has formed a team to explore the technical secrets of the "Reunion" game.
The team included not only senior management, top-tier gamers and streamers signed with the platform, but also the most crucial programmer responsible for technical testing, as well as concept artists and modelers who went to learn the art style of "Reunion," and so on...
If it weren't for the fact that "Reunion" only allows a maximum of 10 people to enter the game at the same time, "Playworld" would love to bring its entire game team into the game.
"OK, let's get ready to enter the game..."
After a period of complete darkness, a group of 10 people appeared on an old street.
"The sense of history in this street is quite realistic." The modeler and concept artist looked around at the scenery and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Those senior managers who don't work in the game industry don't know how difficult it is to create a street with a consistent style that isn't based on any existing style.
However, unable to "depress their own morale and boost the prestige of others," the original artists and modelers could only silently swallow these thoughts.
"Let's go to the tenement building first." The senior manager in charge glanced at the rental brochure in his hand and habitually began to give orders.
The others had no objections and silently followed behind the higher-ups.
Before they even reached the tenement building, an NPC came out. All 10 people present had seen the information about "Reunion" and immediately recognized who it was—the enthusiastic Aunt Wang from the promotional video.
"You're here to rent a house, right?" Aunt Wang greeted them with a smile, just as warmly as in the promotional video.
The game streamer who was lagging behind whispered to another streamer, "Why does this opening scene seem a bit different from what I saw online?" In the version he saw, Aunt Wang would only appear after the player entered the tenement building.
"Really?" Another game streamer shrugged. "I don't know, maybe the woman in red designed several versions of the opening sequence?"
After all, games by the red-clothed artist are generally considered "one-time play" games. It's just that because of their high difficulty, no one has publicly claimed to have completed them online yet. So it's normal for the red-clothed artist to design multiple versions of the opening as a gimmick, deliberately creating the illusion that "this is another different story" and trying to maintain the player's sense of novelty...
"That makes sense." The anchor stopped worrying and started talking to the senior executive and Aunt Wang.
Soon, Aunt Wang led them into the tenement building.
"Here, we don't limit how many people can live in one room, but now..." Aunt Wang's words suddenly stopped abruptly.
Just as the others couldn't help but press for more information, Aunt Wang cheerfully continued, as if nothing had happened, "There are only six vacant rooms left on the sixth floor and above. What do you think?"
"Although the floor is... a bit high, it's much quieter. Is that acceptable to you?"
The third floor?
The game streamer started muttering to himself again.
He'd been watching plenty of other game streamers' "reunion" livestreams lately—to be honest, the viewership of those "reunion" streams was making him incredibly envious! Unfortunately, Hongyi had switched platforms to "New World," essentially becoming a direct competitor to his former employer, "Play World." He didn't dare stream games from a rival platform at this time; he could only watch others' streams with envy and secretly play on his friends' accounts. Now, this clandestine experience had come in handy: he remembered that when those game streamers, including himself, lived in apartment buildings, they all lived on the lower floors.
Could it be... because there are more of them?
However, the game streamer with the ID "No Overtime Tonight" dared not say this out loud—
Do you think he's stupid?!
If he says it out loud, won't he expose that he was secretly watching or even having sex with "Tian Yuan"?! He might get fired!
Since I wasn't working overtime tonight, I could only keep this question to myself and silently blend into the crowd as we walked up the stairs together.
But the higher he went, the more metal locks seemed to appear on both sides of the stairwell and on the doors.
That's not right...
I'm already starting to think to myself again that I won't be working overtime tonight:
He remembered that when he played "Reunion", he asked Aunt Wang what the rooms with padlocks were for. Aunt Wang said that they were rooms that no one lived in, and they were locked up to prevent thieves from breaking in.
If the rooms with padlocks are all unoccupied, why did Aunt Wang say before that "there are only 6 empty rooms on the 6th floor and above"?
Aren't these all empty rooms?
How strange... His gaming experience of not working overtime tonight made him feel that something was wrong, and he really wanted to ask about it, but he knew he couldn't ask in front of so many people, which made him anxious and restless.
"Alright, these are the rooms."
Aunt Wang stopped, took out six keys, handed them to the nearest senior manager, said, "You can decide how to live here yourselves..." and then left leisurely.
The executive looked at the nine people behind him and said, "Well then, since there are ten of us in total, let two people share a room so we can look after each other."
Tonight, I'm not working overtime and I've been assigned a room with a programmer named "Xiao Dou".
The two used the key to open the door and went into the room.
Wow, this old-fashioned TV is really well made!
As soon as he entered the room, Xiao Dou was drawn to the television. He ran over to the television and began to study it.
"Hey, this TV still works!"
Seeing the TV screen filled with static, Xiao Dou looked on in surprise. As he tried to change the channel, he gestured to others that he wouldn't be working overtime that night and would come watch with him.
"Even though there wasn't a TV program, it was still quite authentic!"
As Xiao Dou spoke, he pulled out the program that had been disguised as a chest ornament and successfully imported into the game: "You can copy this (TV) data back!"
Before entering the game, Xiao Dou was given a task. So after playing with the old-fashioned TV for a while, he pointed the "decoration" on his chest at the TV and tried to copy the data from it.
Just as he pointed at the TV and was about to press the button hidden on the "decoration", the TV screen, which had been filled with static, suddenly flickered.
With a "sizzle" sound, the screen, which was filled with static, suddenly flashed, and a woman dressed in red appeared on the screen.