Forces of Temptation

"You used to be a character in 2D comics. Now you want to do real-life modeling. Of course, on the basis of retaining the details of the original work as much as possible, you will carry out a certain amount of secondary design and entertainment processing."

"The author of "Eternal Day" has passed away, so after contacting his editor friend, the modeler adjusted your appearance."

Having said that, Yi Shuige lowered the nose pads of his glasses again, exposing his eyes with thin and thin threads of light, and looked at Nanzhou seriously.

"According to the settings of the first version, under normal circumstances, you are an ordinary boy with a height of about 1 meters, the most inconspicuous one. And every time a player enters, your normal face will be randomly updated. You It has a set of 7 public face models."

"This design is to enhance the suspense and add the game link of 'Let the player find the Nanzhou in the small town'."

"The dungeon positioning of "Eternal Day" is suspense + combat. The game flow is expected to be 3 to 12 hours, and the date will be fixed on the night before the "Extreme Day Day" with the strongest light and charm in the original setting."

"Players need to identify who is the boss in their daily interactions, and beware of attacks from other light charms, or find out the terrain as soon as possible, and use props to kill all kinds of mobs on the second day of 'Day Day', and 'South Zhou' is a boss whose strength, intelligence, speed, and agility have all reached S+ level."

"After becoming Guangmei, your appearance will be restored as much as possible in the comics, and your height will increase to 2 meters 1, forming a contrast."

"Your hair will turn into snow-white air waves, and you will grow sharp fish-ear peripherals with a dolphin-level perception of sound, and you can use the medium of 'light' to strangle players at will. As time goes on, you will stronger."

Nan Zhou touched his earlobe.

Yi Shuige supported his side, his expression seemed to be relaxed, but his tone was a little serious.

"So, Nan Zhou, let me ask you now, are the settings I mentioned the same as your experience?"

Nan Zhou shook his head.

He never had those weird settings.

It's just that one day, someone broke into his world, and drew an apple on his seemingly rich but blank canvas of life.

Li Yinhang was confused: "What does this mean?"

"Let me put it another way." Yi Shuige said, "Nanzhou, in your knowledge, do you have any previous memories before meeting the player for the first time?"

With a thought, Li Yinhang seemed to understand Yi Shuige's question a little bit.

In the comics of "Eternal Day", Nan Zhou is indeed the protagonist.

But when "Eternal Day" became a popular game, "Southern Boat" itself was no longer so important.

More importantly, game designers should do their best to satisfy players' sense of immersion, refreshment, and desire to explore.

The player is what matters.

Therefore, in this newly constructed virtual world, it is impossible for Nanzhou, the boss, to know his past.

He should be a model that is beautiful, full of power, manipulated by all kinds of extremely accurate data, and serves the players.

Hearing such a previous situation, even the irritable Xie Xiangyu became quiet.

He looked at Nan Zhou with surprise, and the enthusiasm in his eyes was burning again.

Under several curious, amazed, or fanatical gazes, Nan Zhou only felt a hand secretly grasping his wrist, using his knuckles to hold against the butterfly tattoo on the side of his wrist, and slowly caressing it soothingly.

Jiang Fang didn't look at him.

He just smiled and stood with him, meeting those gazes together.

Nan Zhou suddenly felt relieved.

He responded: "Yeah."

He has memory.

It was a long, 20-plus years of solitude.

After "Eternal Day" ended, his life continued and developed silently, blooming a little flower unknown to everyone.

Li Yinhang's face changed drastically.

For a moment, countless thoughts intertwined in her mind, causing her to be dazed: "Then, what does this mean—"

Jiang Fang raised his other hand, pressed a point on the back of Li Yinhang's head, and exerted force with his fingertips to help her soothe her emotions.

But what he said made Li Yinhang's hair stand on end.

"It means... Nanzhou has always existed."

"Since he was born in "Eternal Day", he has been living in the world of "Eternal Day"."

"The game does not recreate a world, but uses a certain method to intentionally or unintentionally break the barrier between the two worlds."

Li Yinhang tightly twisted the corner of his clothes, and said in a shy voice, "This, is this possible?"

If this statement is true, then do the comics and novels she has read since she was a child also contain a real world?

Will they ache, cry, be driven by the plot unconsciously, and run towards an ending they can't predict?

She instinctively resisted such a conclusion.

But Jiang Fang easily broke her defense with just one sentence.

"Don't you think this kind of behavior is familiar?"

Jiang Fang said: "If none of this is possible, why are we in an inexplicable game now?"

Yi Shuige let out a sigh of relief slowly.

"If he is different..." Jiang Fang cast his eyes on Yi Shuige and asked another question, "As engineers who build the game world, you should be the first to find out that something is wrong."

Hearing this, Yi Shuige took off his sunglasses and pinched the Jingming acupoint twice.

He is very familiar with this movement, and it is probably a common movement when he is thinking.

"For the copy of "Eternal Day", two chief engineers have been replaced."

"The first chief engineer's surname is Mo. I know him. He likes to dance the waltz, and he's quite romantic in his life."

"Mo Gong likes "Eternal Day" very much, and he pursues the ultimate perfection. Therefore, he asked to restore the closed place of Never Town at the pixel level, and the requirement for the key element of 'light and shadow' has reached the peak level. .”

"His programmers were being beaten to death by him, but he showed me concept drawings."

"I have to say that if his conception is completed, it will be another miracle of the Ninth Art."

"but……"

Yi Shuige raised his eyes and looked at the crowd: "On the day when 'Miracle' started the test, he died."

"He broke the glass on the nineteenth floor and jumped down. The reason is unknown, and there is no suicide note."

The more objective and calm he narrates, the more cold and bitter he is.

"No one knows why he died."

"This matter has been in the news for a while, and finally according to surveillance, he jumped off by himself. It wasn't homicide."

Yi Shuige described to them the scene in the surveillance in detail.

A man in his thirties, in a cubicle with all the lights off, in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with thousands of lights and neon lights as the background, facing himself reflected in the room, dancing with hands and feet, with a ecstatic expression.

He hugged his partner in the void for no apparent reason, and finished the last solo waltz in this life.

Immediately, he smashed the glass with the computer, and jumped off against the sound of the wind amidst the piercing siren.

"This iron-like evidence, coupled with his long-term use of anti-anxiety drugs, no one will doubt that he did not commit suicide."

"The final conclusion is that the work pressure is too high. How should I put it, there is no surprise."

"The deputy chief engineer's surname is Cen. After taking over his position, everything returned to normal."

"...No, it should be said that everything is even more abnormal."

According to Yi Shuige's description, Deputy Chief Engineer Cen spent nearly three days to sort out the materials and data left by Mo Gong.

Then, it was as if he was possessed by Mo Gong's ghost.

He, who has never been so picky, started to work around the clock, almost like a madman.

He grasped the core, drastically overturned the original modeling plan, and demanded to re-model it according to the appearance in Nanzhou's comics, and he did it all by himself.

——He was originally a modeler.

He has all the power, and other designers, programmers, testers, and modelers, etc., are arranged under an inherent framework by his detailed schedule, and they are only responsible for their own small part of the work. They didn't know each other's work progress, so they all transferred to Cen's deputy chief engineer's office to take charge.

This means that his workload will increase geometrically.

But he never tires of it.

...but he was not such a person at all.

Yi Shuige summed it up: "He seems to have discovered a new world."

"He declared that he was on a great quest, a journey into another world."

Jiang Fang frowned slightly: "No one cares about him?"

"Everyone in the company is under a lot of work pressure. It's normal to have some strange words and deeds." Yi Shuige said, "I also saw someone in the pantry, wearing a sweater and shorts, saying that he is going to become a light." gone."

"After the game was launched, the feedback I got was that it was too difficult, and the boss was too intelligent. Some book fans protested, saying that this kind of 'relief' achieved by killing Nanzhou was consistent with the original book's yearning for freedom and fighting for freedom. The spirit does not match."

"However, the voices of this group of fans are too low. Most of them still feel that it is too difficult to kill 'Nan Zhou', which will affect the player experience."

Yi Shuige laid out the timeline very clearly, his thinking was clear, and he spoke eloquently, so Li Yinhang was able to keep up with his thinking.

Li Yinhang asked: "When Mo Gong hosted "Eternal Day", did he have any endings?"

"Yes." Yi Shuige said, "Assistant Cen directly cut off the multi-ending line, kept the line of 'killing the boss', and cut off the line of 'I'll take you out'."

"Now it seems...probably because he can't erase the memory of an existing character, and he is worried that the player's repeated deception with the purpose of clearing the level will backfire, making you unbelievable and causing the 'game' to get out of control. Scared that you could actually come out with the players."

Having said that, Yi Shuige stroked his lips.

"There is another point, which is very interesting. I didn't understand it in the past, but now I can probably figure it out. ——That is, from the public beta to the official operation of the dungeon of "Eternal Day", there has never been any bugs in scenes or characters, and it runs smoothly. Too fluid."

"The most complaints received so far are just that the difficulty is too high."

"Under the company's strong request, Cen's deputy engineer made two corrections and adjustments, but each time he did it himself, and the correction process was unbelievably long."

When Yi Shuige was late one day, he saw Assistant Engineer Cen staggering out of the office building.

Under the sunlight, he looked like a pale and vain wandering soul, and the dark circles under his eyes were almost crushed into rings on a dead tree stump.

Yi Shuige put his hands in his pockets and waved his hand in front of his eyes.

He had no doubt that the man would fall to the ground and die suddenly at any moment.

Deputy Cen's sanity seemed to have reached its limit due to long-term suffering.

With a blank face, he greeted Yi Shuige and walked straight forward.

A few steps away, he suddenly seemed to have loaded the expression function, turned his head, and smiled: "Consultant Yi?"

Yi Shuige turned around.

Deputy Cen lowered his voice mysteriously and said, "Have you... seen a miracle?"

After letting go of this thoughtless remark, he waddled away like a penguin.

All kinds of doubts were laid out, all of which verified Jiang Fang's previous speculation.

Mo Gong opened the door.

He couldn't accept the existence of another world, or wanted to go to another world.

In short, he chose death.

Deputy Cen fell in love with the world behind the door.

He kept this door and let others work together to build a game world with the same appearance as this world.

But he will send uninformed players into the deeper world, and let them experience this natural game world while relying on the game's security mechanism.

That is to say, it belongs to the world of Nanzhou.

Nan Zhou thought of the weird webbed palms on the snow mountain.

[Brain Invasion] The tin soldier who lost his autonomy in the copy of the library.

And the flocks of wild swans in the wild swan copy.

Those, could they also be sent from a higher dimension and left by some players?

After explaining all the information he knew, Yi Shuige simply got up and said straight away without saying those unnecessary clichés: "Okay, I'm done talking. It's time for us to leave."

"It's best not to stay in the same place for too long. I'm not sure whether the various positioning items in the hands of those players are useful to you."

Nan Zhou: "Do you know where we are going?"

Yi Shuige smiled: "If it were me, I would go there. So you have to be mentally prepared, there will not be very few people waiting for you there. Get ready."

He turned around and patted Xie Xiangyu's head by the way: "Wait here for me well."

Xie Xiangyu dodged abruptly, and sneered again and again: "Don't touch me. Be careful that I bite off your finger."

Yi Shuige's brain doesn't seem to have loaded the "anger" module at all: "The ability to express is very good. Next time, try to speak completely in bed."

When Xie Xiangyu's breathing rate increased significantly, Nanzhou walked to Yi Shuige with Nanjixing on his hands.

Yi Shuige glanced at Jiang Fang, winked at Nan Zhou, and asked in a low voice, "You don't want to hear about him?"

He was referring to the fact that Jiang Fang was the only surviving player in "Gravity" after a serious accident.

Nan Zhou was obviously interested, but after showing that slight interest, he kept silent.

Yi Shuige wanted to know the reason.

Nanzhou gave him a reason: "He will tell me."

...Although it was very reluctant and he would blush, but he would stare into his eyes and tell himself word for word.

Nan Zhou wanted to hear Jiang Fang talk to him like this.

The author has something to say:

Mo Gong: Goodbye, I am going to Two-dimensional

Assistant Engineer Cen: Two-dimensional, here I come