MTL - Hello, How Long Has This Been Going On?-Chapter 25

This sleep was very heavy, and it was already one o'clock in the afternoon when Tao Zhiyue woke up.

The sun was warm and filled the room with light.

Tao Zhi rubbed his sleepy eyes, he remembered that he had a long, long dream yesterday, but when he woke up, the dream slipped away from his memory.

He only had a vague impression that he seemed to be dreaming of the boy with white T-shirt yesterday.

I don't know if I will meet him today.

Although I have already slept in the morning, fortunately, the afternoon activities in the game exhibition usually start after two o'clock, and there is still time to rush there.

Tao Zhi quickly washed and ate, took his backpack and went out.

The phone is still silent and there is no new message.

After struggling for a while, Tao Zhiyue decisively logged out of the pp login.

As long as he is not online, this is Schrödinger's news. He can think that HR has seen the apology bouquet in the game, and then sent him a message.

The world in the game is simple and pure, with only cute animals, who concentrate on taking care of their own island.

There, Tao Zhiyue can pretend that the brown bear is really his neighbor and friend. He didn't reply to the message in time, so he sent a gift to apologize.

Even if this gift is an unusual flower, it can be interpreted as a thank you gift from HR for helping him repair the island, which is the seed they planted together.

But in reality, he couldn't do anything over the line to a straight man who had a crush on him.

The flow of people at today's game show was even greater than yesterday's. Fortunately, the line to enter the venue in the afternoon was not long, and Tao Zhiyue entered after waiting for a while.

The most popular area is still the demo area of ​​the War of the Roses. After a night of urgent work, the meticulously prepared Rose House was finally opened to the public. At this moment, the exhibition audience was crowded inside and outside, and many people came to take pictures and check in.

Tao Zhiyue stood outside the crowd and was stunned for a while.

Yesterday, he played games all afternoon in the independent trial room at the back of the hut, sitting beside a strange man who made his heart flutter.

Thinking about it now, it feels like a world away.

Next to the hut, there are staff members whom I met yesterday, sweating profusely to maintain order, behind me is a sea of ​​pink flowers, as romantic as a fairy tale.

Tao Zhi watched for a while, then walked away silently.

According to the previously planned itinerary, Tao Zhiyue took a notebook and stopped and walked among the booths, taking notes with a serious expression.

In the high-intensity thinking, those charming moods were gradually left behind.

Yesterday he had a general idea. For Zhitong games who are used to brainless games, it is very difficult to make up their minds and switch directly to original development. Maybe they will be busy for a long time and finally do nothing. not come out.

Many gamers will subconsciously think that to engage in original development is to develop their own engine, innovate gameplay, and create a unique style.

But this road is too difficult. There are only mere successes, and countless teams that have fallen halfway have not been seen.

Tao Zhiyue felt that instead of trying to reach the sky in one step, it is better to improve and optimize on the existing basis, and strive to make it small and beautiful.

The most important thing is to identify the core selling point of the game, and then design and implement it with awe.

For example, the War of the Roses does not have much innovation in gameplay. It is a relatively conventional MMORGP, but the unique all-female setting, gorgeous and not frivolous style of painting, it has won the general favor of female players, and has produced unexpected surprises. Influence.

While absorbing nourishment from the outside world, he sorted out his own thoughts, and by the time the library closed at six o'clock, Tao Zhiyue had a relatively complete and specific idea.

Almost all the projects that should be seen have been finished, not only for the company, Tao Zhiyue has also learned a lot of new knowledge.

After an afternoon of brainstorming, he was in a state of extreme excitement, forgetting that it was already off-duty time, and couldn't wait to take a taxi to the company.

But just in time for the project team to work overtime today, the lights in the company were brightly lit, and the CEO didn't come home from get off work, just sitting in the office and thinking hard.

Before he had time to talk to his bewildered colleagues, Tao Zhiyue hurried into the CEO's office and told him everything he had seen, heard and thought in the past two days.

Mr. Guo, the CEO, nodded frequently. On the way, he called the producer, chief planner, and main program Lao Li of the project team. A group of people talked loudly in the office, which made the employees in the office area outside frantically poke their heads, curious Bursting.

Half an hour later, Mr. Guo came out first and said that he would not work overtime today, and invited everyone to have a dinner at a nearby barbecue and sign up voluntarily.

The crowd immediately burst into cheers of joy.

On the way to the barbecue restaurant with twenty or thirty people, Tao Zhiyue was at the end of the line, and Wang Heng slowed down and walked up to him.

"Brother Tao, have you finished your work at home?"

Tao Zhi was stunned for a moment, then remembered the conversation between the two, "Well, right..."

"Hey, I knew it." Wang Heng was a little proud, "Brother Tao, you seem to have changed recently. I think you must have taken care of some troublesome things."

Tao Zhi was more surprised and said, "Really?"

"Yeah! It just becomes..." Wang Heng scratched his hair, trying to come up with an accurate description, "It became brighter! Hey, this word doesn't seem to be used that way."

"Anyway, I used to think Brother Tao was not easy to get close to, and was a bit cold. But now it seems... It feels like he's back in the crowd. Isn't it strange to say that?"

Wang Heng slapped his head, "Forget it, I'm sorry for the Chinese teacher, anyway, let us have a chance to feast on it again, hehe, thank you Brother Tao!"

Colleagues around were chatting, laughter came from the crowd from time to time, neon signs flickered, and the aroma of barbecue in the small restaurant in front had spread.

This somewhat familiar scene, as well as Wang Heng's unintentional words, reminded Tao Zhiyue of the person he deliberately forgot today.

His nose was slightly sore, he coughed lightly, and smiled at Wang Heng, "Okay, I will."

The barbecue restaurant was full of smoke, and several large tables were arranged to form a long strip, which was full of colleagues. Everyone ordered dishes in a hurry, and the grilled skewers and beer bottles piled up in front of them quickly.

Tao Zhiyue didn't drink often, and when he drank, he would show his face, but tonight he drank a lot, his face turned red, and his head was drunk.

Mr. Guo was even more exaggeratedly drunk. Holding a beer bottle, he spoke affectionately and imagined the future. He was so excited that he almost burst into tears, which caused a group of people to roar with laughter.

Amidst the unscrupulous noise, a colleague joked with Tao Zhiyue: "Xiao Tao, are you allergic to alcohol? Your face is so red."

Tao Zhiyue stopped his shaking body, and replied seriously: "It's okay, there are anti-allergic medicines at home."

Beer is bitter, and Tao Zhi doesn't like the taste on weekdays, but on a melancholy summer night, there seems to be nothing better than a dozen cold beers to soothe your worries.

When the banquet was about to end, someone remembered Tao Zhiyue, the hero of the barbecue, and clamored to toast him, and Tao Zhiyue would not refuse.

Seeing that he is so easy to talk today, a female colleague mustered up her courage and half-jokingly said that she wanted to add him to PP, and immediately someone booed, and the small barbecue restaurant was full of commotion.

Tao Zhiyue was almost drunk, blinked his eyes, and groped in his pocket for a long time before finding the phone.

Why didn't pp log in?

Tao Zhi, who was currently slow thinking, couldn't think of the reason, so he clicked to log in, skipped the unread messages with red dots in the list, opened the QR code and handed it to his colleagues to scan.

Tao Zhiyue saw that his colleagues were vying for it, Mu Mu thought of something, and whispered: "I haven't joined the company group, please give me a hand."

His cheeks were red, the corners of his eyes were wet with sleepiness after drunkenness, but he sat upright, his clear and bright eyes in the past were covered with a layer of mist, no longer the usual decisiveness and calmness, and there was a kind of imperceptible fragility.

Seeing this scene, the colleagues who were still awake were stunned for a moment, and subconsciously lowered their volume: "Okay...Okay, right now."

Someone handed him the phone back, Tao Zhiyue took it, and was about to put it back in his pocket when a voice call rang.

His vision was a little blurry, Tao Zhiyue settled down to look, and a beautiful landscape photo avatar popped up on the screen, nicknamed HR.

It's strange, why would someone call him, he obviously didn't find a new job...

Filled with doubts, Tao Zhi hung up the connection and put the phone to his ear.

The noise around him faded away, and there was a low breathing sound next to his ears. Tao Zhiyue didn't speak, but clenched his phone tightly, and unconsciously followed the other person to breathe lightly.

Then he heard his own heartbeat.

A few seconds later, a somewhat distorted male voice came from the other end, his tone mixed with tension and apprehension.

"...Hi, is this Dr. Tao?"