part27

  Sleepwalking in Jianghu 2?

  "This familiar yet strange term immediately made Weiwei turn her gaze from the computer to Xiao Nai, blurting out: 'Will Dream Journey be released for 2?!'"

  How come I've never heard of this news before, and yet, I saw the character settings for Dream Walker 2 on Da Shen's computer. What does this imply?

  "Is this game made by you?" I blurted out without thinking, and then quickly negated myself: "No, I remember that 'Dreaming of Jianghu' is a product of Fengteng."

  "Dream Journey Jianghu is indeed a product of Fengteng, but Dream Journey 2 will be co-developed by us and Fengteng."

  His tone and expression were flat, as if he didn't think he was revealing a stunning message at all. It wasn't until a while later that he digested it: "I've never heard of Dream Walker 2 being released."

  "No announcement has been made yet."

  "Hey, wasn't it you in that video of a woman stealing someone's bride?"

  Xiao Nai shook his head: "No, this video thing, I only knew about it a day earlier than you."

  Although he cooperated with Fengteng on Mengyou 2, Mengyou 1 has nothing to do with him. Mengyou 1 is a martial arts game independently developed and operated by Fengteng Technology under the Fengteng Group, which belongs to a different department. He naturally wouldn't know about the decisions made over there, unless this decision also involves Meng 2, Fengteng would have no need to consult his opinion.

  At first, if not considering the funds and his own risk tolerance, Xiao Nai would not have cooperated with Fengteng on Dream Journey 2. According to their cooperation agreement, Fengteng Technology was only responsible for funding and later-stage operations, while development was entirely handled by Xiao Nai's team. So when Fengteng Technology called to say they wanted to add a new form of "grab the bride" gameplay in Dream Journey 2, Xiao Nai was somewhat surprised. When the other party explained that the idea came from female thief videos online, Xiao Nai couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time.

  He agreed to add new gameplay to Dream 2 after a brief consideration, but he didn't tell Feng Teng that the person in the video was actually himself.

  Fengteng also didn't know that Yixiaonaihe was him, this ID was registered at the beginning of Mengyou Jianghu under the recommendation of his roommate, played for a while and then stopped, until after cooperating with Fengteng, he re-entered with the idea of familiarizing himself with the previous game.

  Xiao Nai explained his relationship with Feng Teng while bringing up more settings for Weiwei to see. Weiwei concentrated on looking at them for a while, then asked: "What does the new 'snatch the bride' gameplay mean?"

  "In simple terms, it's setting up a 'snatch spouse' switch. Unmarried players of the opposite sex who turn on this switch can snatch each other as spouses."

  "Like the PK switch in some games?"

  "Uh-huh."

  It seems like it's really fresh and fun, but won't this be chaotic? I slightly imagined the scene of all the online gamers scrambling for men and women, and I'm sweating.

  After reading the character settings, Xiao Nai got up to make tea, glanced at the computer screen, and subconsciously took over Xiao Nai's mouse, clicking through the character settings again. He gradually became engrossed in it, unknowingly sitting halfway on Xiao Nai's chair.

  Xiao Nai made two cups of tea and turned around, only to see this scene. After a brief moment of stunned silence, she put the cup in her left hand on the bookshelf beside her, leaned against the bookshelf, raised the cup to her lips, and took a sip.

  You stand on the bridge and watch the scenery, while the people watching the scenery are standing above you.

  He didn't even realize he had already entered the scene, and after carefully reading through the character settings again, he looked up at Xiao Nai with sparkling eyes and said, "I like this game."

  Xiao Nai leaned against the bookshelf and smiled: "Just look at people's settings?"

  "No, a person's setup can reveal many things." After thinking for a moment, although it was a bit embarrassing to talk about this topic, she still expressed her thoughts.

  "Nowadays, online games on the market cater to male players by making female characters wear revealing clothes, some are even unbearable to look at. When I chose the Red Dress Heroine character, one reason was because I liked her skills, and another reason was because she had more clothes. But Dream Journey 2 is not like that, the clothing of the female characters inside is very normal, this at least shows that the game developers respect their own game and have confidence in it, without resorting to those cheap tricks to cater to the masses."

  There's a faint, inexplicable excitement in my heart. Although the female characters in Dream Journey 1 were still quite revealing, they were better than those in other online games on the market. Now that Dream Journey 2 has made such significant changes, it must be due to the decision of the great developer. Does this mean that the great developer respects women?

  Xiao Nai didn't expect her to say something like that, and his heart couldn't help but move. He looked at her bright and radiant face, with a faint scent of tea in her nose, and a thread of delight flashed through the deepest part of his heart.

  "Make 'female characters not exposed'," these few words are easy to say, but he had to work hard to achieve it. He came from a scholarly and aristocratic family, with his own persistence in his bones, but using his own principles to persuade investors? This is too naive and unrealistic, only the market can convince the market, so he did various research to make investors realize the consumption capacity of women in online games, to realize that what attracts male players to a game is not the exposure degree of female characters...

  But he wouldn't say that to Weiwei, of course. When it came to Xiao Nai, everything was always understated. His dark eyes shone with a soft light, reflecting the crowded scene before him, and he smiled elegantly: "Thank you for the compliment, I'm honored."

  He seemed so calm, but had a slightly strange feeling that detected a hint of unusual fluctuations. The great god's mood seems to be good, did she accidentally take a picture of the great god's horse butt? Xiao Wei was a bit embarrassed and asked Xiaonai: "When will Dream 2 start internal testing?"

  "The earliest is sealed at the end of the year."

  It should be fine to get an internal test number by then, right? After getting excited for a while, I suddenly remembered the main issue. "Since you guys are collaborating, can you handle the video thing? Actually, it's best if you handle it, although the video was posted under my name, but in reality, it was all done by you."

  "Of course not, my name can't appear on the contract."

  Slightly strange: "Why?"

  "Copyright fee."

  This time, it took a detour to understand - if the big god signed this contract, as the development core of Dream Journey 2, contributing ideas is a matter of course, and Fengteng doesn't need to pay royalties anymore.

  "Alright, then I'll sign alone and we can split the copyright fees among the five of us." Miao Miao said with a gentle tone, but for some reason, she suddenly felt like they were cheating people out of their money.

  "Don't give any to Foolish Old Man." Xiao Nai said indifferently, gazing at the floating tea leaves in his cup.

  "Huh? That's not quite right, is it? After all, others have their own roles too."

  "Take it, consider it their gift for meeting you."

  Gift for meeting...

  She stared at him with a slightly open mouth and tongue-tied, originally wanting to ask him what to do about that part, but now she couldn't ask anymore. What if he said... how would they deal with the betrothal gift?

  The conversation just now was all about online games, and Weiwei hadn't felt anything strange. Now she wasn't responding to him, and the room suddenly fell silent. Weiwei suddenly realized that she was actually touching Da Shen's mouse, using Da Shen's computer, and sitting in Da Shen's chair?!

  What on earth is going on here!

  Slowly, she withdrew her hand from the mouse of the great god's computer, and with a hint of embarrassment, she shifted her gaze, avoiding eye contact with the great god. Just a moment ago, she had been wondering why he was standing there... It turned out that he couldn't go home.

  The office was quiet, and Xiao Nai seemed to be intentionally making her more embarrassed, not speaking or moving, leisurely drinking his own tea, with his slender fingers occasionally stroking the cup.

  Her gaze, which had been wandering slightly, was drawn to his actions and stared unblinkingly at his fingers. Just now, she was too busy talking and hadn't noticed that he seemed to be holding...

  She couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, so she got up curiously and walked to his side, lowering her head to stare at the teacup in his hand. Xiao Nai smiled and handed the teacup over to her.

  She gently picked it up, holding it in her palm to admire it carefully. It was a white porcelain tea cup with a classic curved shape, its body delicate and translucent, filled with pale green tea that looked lovely and exquisite. However, what attracted her attention wasn't its beauty, but the pattern painted on the cup - several clusters of emerald bamboo, with a white-robed musician sitting in front of them playing the zither.

  "Is this a limited edition Dream Journey Through Jianghu tea set?" she exclaimed softly in surprise.

  "Here, and this one is yours."

  Another tea cup with a floating tea fragrance was gently placed in her hand, still with a clean white body, but this cup had a picture of a red-clothed dancing knife female knight.

  "Is there anything else?" The Dream of Red Mansions has 36 characters, so a set should have 36 cups.

  "Feng Teng gave us a set, I only took these two, the others are with Yu Gong and them."

  Only took these two?

  The subtle movement of holding the cup and looking left and right momentarily froze, raised his head to glance at his stern face close at hand, for a moment, the long eyelashes fell again, covering the sparkling eyes.

  So was this cup prepared for her? Did he anticipate that one day she would come to his office?

  Weiwei continued to stare at the cup, but her movements slowed down imperceptibly, every gesture seeming so absent-minded. Finally, without any mental preparation, Weiwei asked softly: "Xiao Nai, how did you recognize me yesterday?"

  "When she first uttered the two words 'Xiao Nai', it was as if they were imbued with magic, and even someone as calm as Xiao Nai had a moment of distraction."

  However, as soon as he quickly regained his composure and replied, his absent-mindedness immediately turned into a faint smile.

  "Not yesterday." Gently taking the cup from the white-robed pianist's hand, Xiao Nai said: "It was in March, at the Extreme."

  March? Extreme? The place called extreme...

  "Internet cafe?!" slightly surprised.

  "Uh, I happened to have something to do there that day, and when I walked by, I saw you helping with the fight."

  She was completely stunned. She had thought that many big shots would recognize her because of her voice, IP address, and website data, which were not difficult for them to find out. However, it actually happened in an internet cafe? And so early, in March?

  She recalled that in March, she did go to an internet cafe once because the broadband in her dormitory was broken. She went to inform her guild members that she would be offline for a while and also participated in the guild war on the same day.

  So early on, did the great god already know her?

  "Your operation is very smooth and your hands are very fast."

  Xiao Nai's gaze stopped on Wei Wei's hands, it was these very hands that had caught his attention in the noisy internet cafe.

  Wow, so fast! My mind was a bit messy, and for the time being, I could only follow his words. "During my senior year summer vacation, I played SC for a while, and what I practiced was actually not high APM, all below 150."

  "APM is just for reference."

  He nodded slightly and said that effective operation rate might be more crucial than APM, but he couldn't help asking: "So what's your APM?"

  Will it go up to extreme numbers? Like 400 is so perverted...

  "I hadn't tested it out, and when I was playing, there wasn't even a concept of APM."

  It's been years since I didn't have the concept of APM, how many years ago was that? I slightly imagined it, and suddenly felt my blood rushing through my veins, thinking that a great god playing games must be super cool.

  The more I think about it, the more excited I get. So, I reflexively said with sparkling eyes: "When can we have a one-on-one match?"

  What kind of topic is this? Xiao Nai raised an eyebrow, smiling as he glanced at her, "Alright, but please," he paused for a moment before continuing, "...go easy on me."

  He didn't say anything, but his face turned slightly red. How did she think that the pause was him wanting to say "wife"?

  :(

  She must have gone crazy today, all she thinks about is weird ideas, first it's the betrothal gift and then it's the wife, if she keeps going on like this, um...

  "I'm going to read a book."

  Without waiting for Xiao Nai's response, she quickly picked up her cup and sat back on the sofa, picking up a book and pretending to read seriously.

  Afternoon tea is over.

  She calmed down and read a few pages of the book, but soon lost her focus again. She remembered that she still had one more question to ask...

  Since he knew her so early on, why didn't he say anything in the game?

  She had unconsciously fallen into a daze, completely unaware that her line of sight had shifted from the book to the person behind the office desk.

  The office was still quiet, with only the soft sound of typing on the keyboard. However, the sound of typing also gradually stopped. Xiao Nai suddenly stopped her hands and said without lifting her head: "Wei Wei, if you keep looking at me like that, I won't be able to take it."

  Because I was absent-minded, I faintly heard his voice but didn't immediately understand what he meant. It wasn't until after a while that I came to my senses, and then...

  Okay, Weiwei suddenly flared up and didn't want to ask anything anymore TT

  The whole afternoon was spent in such low efficiency. Dinner was eaten casually near the office building of Dashen, and Weiwei was once worried that she would have to eat fish head soup, fortunately Dashen was not so inhumane.

  Considering that I didn't see many books in the afternoon, after dinner, I had a strong urge to sneak back to the dormitory, but this urge was killed by a sentence from Da Shen before it could be implemented.

  "Want to have a PK with me?"

  Then, she obediently followed him back to the company, one person per computer, and started PKing~~~ Unfortunately, from dream PK to SC, Weiwei lost every single time, losing so badly that she was a bit resentful later on. Other people's boyfriends would always let their girlfriends win, why did hers have to be so ruthless, not even raising an eyebrow when he beat her.

  Of course, hoping that a great god will show mercy is a very shameful thought, and I habitually pushed it back to the depths of my mind.

  Because of Weiwei's repeated defeats, it wasn't until nine o'clock that Xiaonai sent her back. This whole day, Weiwei was extremely busy, together with Da Shen they were either picking people up or PKing, but Weiwei suddenly seemed to have found the feeling she used to have in online games, and suddenly felt that Da Shen was very approachable...

  The author has something to say: This is February's drop~~~ emphasis! January's drop task has been completed haha.

  "Shan Shan Come and Eat"'s New Year's special and "Author Has Something to Say" see the notice, there is an important announcement about updates, but I'm feeling dizzy now, might write it later~~~

  Also, the first half of this chapter may have been seen by some classmates who saw it before, but I added some supplements in the middle that No. 26 didn't have, don't miss them, about character settings, I don't know if any classmates resonate with me --

  By the way, this time there are a lot of words, can it be counted as twice?

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