The cold game displayed a cold system announcement.
After a few minutes of confusion, Li Shuoxing finally understood the current situation.
As he stared at the closed production workshop and the favourability pool in the upper left corner, he only felt a hot gas rising from his belly, which finally into a great sneer that rushed out of his throat.
âShit!â
Anger and impulse took over Li Shuoxingâs mind at that moment, driving his body.
By the time he came back to his senses, he had already left his home and arrived at a mobile phone repair shop outside his neighbourhood.
The shopkeeper, who was in his thirties or forties, with half-length hair and a rather dishevelled look, asked him lazily:
âWipe the phone, right? Have you backed up your data? Any data that needs to be kept?â
Li Shuoxing: ââŚYes. My QQ and WeChat data have to be kept.â
These two must be kept. The accounts of friends and editors were here.
Shopkeeper: âMm.â
Li Shuoxing: âAnd the stuff in the memo also has to be kept.â
It was full of ideas, written and unwritten, quite a number of them. Itâd be a great loss if they were lost.
Shopkeeper: âMm.â
Li Shuoxing: âAnd all the photos in the gallery, they also have to be kept.â
Shopkeeper: âMm.â
Li Shuoxing: âAndâŚâ
Shopkeeper: âUsually there shouldnât be any more.â
Li Shuoxing: ââŚâ
He was speechless at first, but after a moment admitted that after keeping these, there was nothing else in the phone that needed to be kept.
He handed over his phone.
The shopkeeper took it, but didnât take it. He added a little more strength, but the phone was still firmly in the customerâs palm.
The two were in a standoff for a few minutes.
The shopkeeper compromised. âYoung man, if you donât give me your phone, how can I wipe it?â
Li Shuoxing snapped out of it.
He said, âIâm sorryâŚâ
He loosened his fingers and, watching the thin phone being taken and placed in front of the computer behind the counter, he suddenly felt some inner turmoil.
He didnât know why he felt that way.
Maybe it was because there were too much stuff in his phone and it didnât feel safe to hand it over casuallyâŚ
The small shop was less than twenty square metres, and with a rectangular counter and a table set up, even turning around was difficult.
Li Shuoxing stood leaning against the counter, his eyes moving with the shopkeeperâs movements.
He said absent-mindedly, âCan wiping the phone wipe out malware?â
Shopkeeper: âDefinitely. Why else would people wipe their phones?â
Li Shuoxing: âThen what happens to the malware that gets wiped?â
Shopkeeper: ââŚâ
What happens to the malware?
Of course, the malware will continue to be malware.
He thought todayâs customer was a little strange, so he simply kept his mouth shut. Silence was golden.
Li Shuoxing continued to talk. It didnât matter if the shopkeeper didnât answer him. He could talk to himself. âIf the malware has been used, data has been generated in it. If itâs deleted, then that dataâŚâ
Actually, what malware, what data, it was all a sham.
What Li Shuoxing wanted to ask wasâŚ
If I delete the game, what happens to the little person?
Will he get hungry, will he get cold, will he get lonely and depressed because of my sudden disappearance?
Tsk.
How can data be depressed?
But is there enough food stored at home? Although thereâs still some pumpkin, he has always hated pumpkin. He wouldnât cry again because he has to have pumpkin with white rice, right?
Tsk.
So what if he cries? He deducted me 1998 favourability points for no reason today! Doesnât he feel that Iâve worked hard to earn my favourability bit by bit?
But the game is about to open the Double Eleven event, and that thick travel journal has just started. Right, thereâs still contribution points. I havenât even spent all the money Iâve put in yet!
Two conflicting thoughts tugged back and forth in Li Shuoxingâs mind, making his expression keep changing.
Then.
He saw the shopkeeper plug his phone into the charging cable, flick the mouse and open the software.
Li Shuoxingâs head was muddled and he blurted out, âWait!â
What followed was super similar to the beginning.
Another emotion took control of Li Shuoxingâs mind, driving his body.
By the time he came back to his senses, he had already returned home with his phone.
Nothing seemed to have changed except that an hour of time had strangely been devoured.
Li Shuoxing: ââŚâ
So what was I fussing about for.
With a long sigh, he lowered his head and rested it on the table.
His head lowered for two seconds, Li Shuoxing still felt a strong sense of unwillingness after compromising.
He was reluctant to curse the little person, but he couldnât not scold this game.
In the past, Li Shuoxing didnât find the developerâs contact information in the game and let it go. However, this time, he decided to look for it to the end. Itâd be better to check his consumption records one by one to find out the companyâs phone number, and then call and get angry at them.
Li Shuoxing directly opened his WeChat.
He used a mix of Alipay and WeChat. That bill of 648 was spent through WeChat.
This number was easy to find. Li Shuoxing had barely even swiped before finding the consumption record.
He viciously clicked in and looked at the company nameâ
âŚEh?
He was surprised to find that the recipient of this 648 wasnât a company account, but a private account nicknamed Su <sup>1</sup> Su is written in English instead of Chinese. .
Su.
Su?
Su Mingqian?
Li Shuoxing had a strange look on his face. ââŚI canât set the little personâs name in the game since itâs set by default. The gameâs payment account is a private account, and its nickname is the little personâs surname.â
He had a guess.
Su Mingqian canât be the name of the game developer, can it?
Well, isnât it a little narcissistic to use your own name in the game?
He then clicked on the contact information below and found that the private accountâs contact information didnât include a phone number, but instead gave a message system. At the top of the message system, the private accountâs avatar was displayed.
Li Shuoxing took a look and saw a dark purple background with light white hanging wisps, a wisteria pattern.
The avatar was also so artistic, more in line with the narcissistic temperament⌠hmm?
At first glance, he didnât think anything of it, but after a couple more glances, Li Shuoxing suddenly noticed something off.
After examining the small picture for a long time, he finally found what was wrong with it.
Those clusters of hanging wisps floating down werenât flowers and leaves, but 0âs and 1âs.
This was a wisteria landscape composed of 0âs and 1âs.
Not to mention, the combination of science and aesthetics was quite romantic. The strong narcissistic feeling had been reduced a lot, bringing out the game developerâs identity.
ButâŚ
âIt still doesnât seem right.â
Li Shuoxing frowned.
When playing this game, although he would curse the trash game to eat shit from time to time, his mind had acquiesced that this was a game developer with considerable strength.
It was a very understandable logic.
Without some strength and staff, how could the game be made so well?
But now, the flow of funds told him that this wasnât a development of a company, but that of an individual.
There did seem to be such a possibility.
But it always felt a little strangeâŚ
Li Shuoxing was a little shocked by this surprise. In his thoughts, half of his originally prepared angry cursing had unknowingly dissipated.
In the end, after a long pause and some pondering back and forth, Li Shuoxing still felt that he had already found it and couldnât just let it go.
He began to type.
âIs this game Love Bar developed by you alone or by your team? Most of it is okay, the memory system has highlights, the openness of the game world is amazing, and the key point is that the loverâs AI system is superbly doneââ
As he wrote this, Li Shuoxing suddenly realised that the direction of the message went against his original intention. He hurriedly corrected it.
âNo, the key point isnât this. The key point is, can you fix your favourability system? Havenât I said, this favourability has been mysterious since the beginning of the game, adding and subtracting all of a sudden with no fixed number at all. Before +10-10 wasnât much, so I put up with it, but now your gameâs getting better and better, with a -999 all of a sudden, and a double hit at that. Donât you suspect players will complain about youââ
He had written to the word limit and couldnât edit any more.
Li Shuoxing looked at the long string of text above and felt that the meaning was about there, so he simply wrote his phone number in the contact information under the message and sent it directly.
After sending it, Li Shuoxing waited for a while.
Unfortunately, the other side didnât reply.
For the rest of the day, there was not a word of reply from the other side. The message thatâd been sent out seemed to sink to the bottom of the sea with a gurgle, not even a splash of feedback to be seen.
It was already midnight.
Li Shuoxing had grinded for a day, finishing off 12,000 words, and he was a little high from writing. Although he had stopped his pen, he was still so excited he couldnât sleep. He could only lie at the head of the bed and casually read a history book.
It was just that this book was a bit poorly written. It could neither make him sleepy nor immerse him into the text. Li Shuoxing had been trying for half an hour, but he was still staring hatefully and was dizzy at the text.
Suddenly, a âdingâ sounded.
An advertisement banner popped up on the phone screen.
Li Shuoxing carelessly swept a glance, and his eyes suddenly paused.
Love Bar: The Double Eleven sale is about to begin. Are you ready for the annual shopping feast? Three major venues, hundreds of items, exclusive skins, mysterious gifts, all in todayâs grand event~
Li Shuoxing: ââŚâ
He leaned over, took his phone, swiped the screen and opened the game.
The moment he entered the game, Li Shuoxing felt a little lighter all over.
He told himself:
I entered the game for tomorrowâs limited-time event. I still have game currency in the game that I havenât spent. I canât waste it.
The screen flashed and a familiar picture appeared.
Li Shuoxing took a glance and didnât see the figure of the little person.
He opened the system narration flashing on the screen and saw a series of text swiping through the screen. He didnât know how much the little person had done alone in this short dayâŚ
After a few seconds, the scrolling of the text finally stopped.
Li Shuoxing looked at the narration again and found that what had appeared on the screen was like this.
Yesterday, 11:00pm
[Su Mingqian takes a shower.]
Su Mingqian: ââŚâ
[Su Mingqian is in a daze.]
Today, 00:00am
[Su Mingqian goes to bed.]
Su Mingqian: ââŚâ
[Su Mingqian is in a daze.]
Today, 00:30am
[Su Mingqian closes his eyes.]
[Su Mingqian is not asleep.]
Su Mingqian: ââŚâ
[Su Mingqian rolls over to face the wall.]
[Su Mingqian rubs his eyes.]
[Su Mingqian rubs his eyes again.]
[Su Mingqian rubs his eyes red.]
[Su Mingqian buries his head in the crook of his arm.]
[Su Mingqian pulls up the blanket to cover himself.]