When he saw the in-app store interface pop up on the screen, Li Shuoxing was calm and unperturbed, not at all surprised.
Game developers also have to eat.
Developing games is for making money.
After a short pause, Li Shuoxing watched the little person press the purchase button.
At this moment, he was already fascinated by the little person in the game. He had completely forgotten his plan to wipe his phone when he had gotten up from bed, only thinking:
After all, love needs money to nourish, I can understand that.
The main thing is.
Itâs one yuan. You wonât lose out if you buy it. You wonât be cheated if you buy it. Iâll just purchase this once!
The whole payment process was smoothâno game had ever challenged the patience of players here. A brand-new iron bookshelf appeared the next moment in the room.
Su Mingqianâs eyes subconsciously looked over to it, and a big +60 immediately popped out of his head!
âThank you very much.â
Youâre welcome.
Itâs good that youâre happy.
This was the first time Li Shuoxing had gotten so many favourability points, and he was quite satisfied. He gently rubbed the little personâs head, and he was surprised to find that although he dodged a bit, favourability didnât drop.
When he scanned the interface again, he found that the total favourability in the favourability pool had become -37, and that there was a new icon beside it. It was a gold medal with the number â68â in the middle.
Li Shuoxing tapped on it.
Narration popped out.
[Contribution points can be used in exchange for rare items.]
Li Shuoxing understood. The favourability points and contribution points in this game should be the gold coins and diamonds in ordinary games. Favourability points could be accumulated through daily activities, then spent in daily activities, like adding a dish to Su Mingqian or whatever. Contribution points, on the other hand, needed to be accumulated through in-app purchases, and at present, it seemed its ratio to RMB was 1:1.
After a brief analysis, he found that Su Mingqian had taken a book from the bookshelf and was sitting at the table reading it.
The iron bookshelf had three shelves.
Of the three shelves, one was full and the other two were empty.
There were four books on the full shelf. Li Shuoxing tapped on it and a bookshelf menu popped up.
[Read A Dream of Red Mansions ]
[Read Journey to the West ]
[Read Outlaws of the Marsh ]
[Read Romance of the Three Kingdoms ]
Among them, the option of Journey to the West was grey, indicating that the book had been taken away by the little person to be read.
As page after page of the book was flipped under the little personâs actions, the little ray of light in front of the table moved from the left to the middle⊠It wasnât until hunger stirred Li Shuoxingâs nerves that he snapped out of this monotonous and boring picture. He stopped dawdling, exited the game, and got up to eat.
Since he was home alone, breakfast was no trouble.
Li Shuoxing opened a carton of milk and poured down the cereal. After he eating it slowly, he picked up his phone and began searching for strategies for the game. He first searched âLove Bar strategyâ.
The webpage was filled with results.
Number one, Love Game.
Number two, Girl, Fall in Love!
Number three, Love Yo.
Number fourâŠ
None were what Li Shuoxing was looking for.
He then used a more specific search âLove Bar favourability strategyâ.
Still nothing.
He continued to search, âLove Bar Su Mingqian strategyâ.
Yet again nothing.
Li Shuoxing gave up searching for this game with a very popular name and a very small audience. He decided to seek help outside the field and find a professional he knew to ask.
He opened QQ, entered the Terminal Food group, and saw Six Flavour Monk, Ten Zero Ling and Calm Egg passionately chatting in the group.
Almost all the people in this group were old authors who entered Terminal at the same time as Li Shuoxing, and their relationships were good. Besides their author accounts, their real identities werenât kept secret.
For example, Six Flavour Monk, whose main characters were always Buddhist, was really a monk in real life. It was said that his temple followed the online trends and asked him to do some publicity work about the temple on the internet. After thinking long and hard, he decided to write a story about Buddha on the Terminal website and brought his temple into the story a bit.
Then, he got popular.
Now, his Buddhist temple had become nationally famous and popular online.
Ten Zero Ling was also interesting. His main job was a football coach and his side job was to write about competitive football. He liked to bet on football and would lose every time he put in money. If he didnât put in money, he also wouldnât necessarily win.
As for Calm Egg⊠this man wasnât simple.
Heâd been writing for ten years. He typed 6,000 words every day and got many reader gifts, and would even have update sprees. But, up until now, there was only one book in his column. Of course, this wasnât because he wrote a 365*10*6000 word book, but because every time he finished writing a book, he would inevitably encounter an online crackdown. After the crackdown, his last completed novel would inevitably disappear, so there would always be only one novel being serialised in his column.
To break this curse, Calm Egg had changed his authorâs name many times, such as:
Li Shuoxing didnât pay attention to what the three were saying but just directly pinged.
â@Soren, do you know a game called Love Bar?â
This was the leading author of the Terminal gaming channel and a part-time amateur game uploader. He knew a lot about games. It was a good idea to ask him any questions about games.
The one being pinged didnât appear for a while, and the three chatting with each other stopped talking to say hello to Li Shuoxing.
Calm Egg: âA rare guest, Eunuch Ximu has unexpectedly appeared.â
Six Flavour Monk: âAmitabha, Almsgiver Ximu, long time no see.â
Ten Zero Ling: âWhy didnât Ximuzi report today? Do I need to help you @Sang Wugui to see who wrote less? That guy only writes 140k a year, a daily average of 383.5 words. Yesterday, he completed his goal and wrote 384 words.â
Calm Egg: âI bet Eunuch Ximu wrote 500 words yesterday.â
Six Flavour Monk: âThe monk raises.â
Li Shuoxing: â6000.â
He haughtily waited for the crowdâs admiration and secretly sneered.
Recently, everyoneâs been hiding at home for winter. The highest word count Iâve seen in seven days was Calm Eggâs 6613. My 6000 wordâs chance of winning isnât small. Apart from Calm Egg, itâs enough to slaughter everyone!
No one spoke for half a minute.
Then, the three people changed the topic as if nothing had happened.
Calm Egg: âContinuing from where we left off, is the gossip about the group next doorâs female editorâs unspoken rules with the male author true?â
Six Flavour Monk: âThe monk also wants to know whether it is true or not.â
Ten Zero Ling: âOkay, monk, youâre not pure.â
Six Flavour Monk: âAmitabha, the so-called colour is emptiness, and emptiness is colour. The monk is just seeking the truth.
Calm Egg sighed. âWhat dumb luck does that guy have? Itâs really enviable.â
Ten Zero Ling imagined. âThe sound of a heartbeat. Why doesnât the editor come to me? I stick to my workouts, and my six-pack abs and mermaid line arenât lacking. As long as she says the word, Iâll fly over right now!â
Six Flavour Monk said seriously, âAmitabha!â
Soren suddenly appeared.
â@Caramel Ximu, Love Bar? Are you talking about Love Game or Love Yo?â After replying to Li Shuoxing, he said to the others, âAre you so sure that itâs a female editor with the unspoken rules? The editors in Terminal are usually men.â
Ten Zero Ling: ââŠâ
Six Flavour Monk: âPlease be careful what you say, Almsgiver.â
Calm Egg sweated madly. âYou man with your ass wide open, donât casually interrupt our fantasies!â
Soren: âHaha.â
Li Shuoxing: âItâs neither of the two you mentioned, but the two words âLove Barâ.â
Soren: âNever heard of it.â
Li Shuoxing: âIâll send a screenshot for you to see.â
Soren: âOk.â
Li Shuoxing turned back to his phone, took a screenshot of the phone page and the game interface, and uploaded them to the group.
Soren: âNever seen this game.â
Li Shuoxing: âHow strangeâŠâ
Soren: âItâs nothing strange. It may be privately produced, and hasnât been completely finished or hasnât passed the review to upload the platform, so it hasnât entered the publicâs attention.â
Li Shuoxing thought that Sorenâs words were very reasonable.
This also seemed to explain why this game had some incomprehensible bugs. Perhaps this game really hadnât been completely finished.
Calm Egg suddenly said, âThe little person in the game is a boy?â
Li Shuoxing casually answered, âYeah, why?â
Calm Egg: âYou⊠you play a love nurturing game, and you chose a male character?!â
Six Flavour Monk hesitated. âAmitabhaâŠâ
Ten Zero Ling: âEunuch Ximu, youâve finally revealed your true self.â
Li Shuoxing came to a realisation.
Right, whyâs there no lover gender option in this game? Could it be⊠the producer assumed by default that only girls play the game?
Li Shuoxing felt a bit strange. He couldnât help but glance at the game.
He let out a huh.
â-30 favourability points? I remember there were -37 favourability points before.â
The favourability in the game had quietly increased on its own!
Li Shuoxing was surprised.
He didnât have time to deal with the people in the group. He left the computer and went to the sofa to look at the phone he was holding.
He was very patient, not blinking at all.
He waited a minute, two minutes, three minutes⊠until nearly five minutes, when suddenly.
+1.
A little favourability came out of the little personâs head while he was reading a book.
Li Shuoxing suddenly realised.
Su Mingqian liked reading books.
If he gave Su Mingqian books to read, he would add a bit of favourability from time to time. Mosquito legs were also meatâthis one yuan was really cost-effective!
As Li Shuoxing was watching, he suddenly rekindled the confidence of adding favourability points.
He suddenly felt that the gameâs pricing was quite fair.
To be frank, isnât it just one yuan⊠Well, isnât it just 68 yuan?
As long as I pay another 68, I can have another +60 favourability points right away, and then immediately unlock the chat function. When I can directly chat with Su Mingqian, Iâll talk to him about what he likes to do, and then Iâll buy all those things. Then, when left unattended, he can still continuously generate favourability points.
Itâs very cost-effective.
Li Shuoxing was tempted and couldnât control his impetuous hand.
He opened the in-app store interface.
The systemâs in-app store interface was quite fancy, but only the bookshelf and book lists were open. The other grids were all grey, not yet unlocked. He probably had to become closer to the little person to unlock them.
Li Shuoxing didnât stop. He bought a series of science fiction books, still 68.
Payment finished, purchase successful.
A new row of books filled the second shelf of the bookshelf.
The little person, who was originally sitting at the table, was awakened by the new movement and raised his head. Seeing this scene, a new number floated out of his head in a moment.
+25.
Li Shuoxing was shocked
Shouldnât it be +60?
Why did it swallow more than half of my favourability points?
Could it be that if I do the same thing twice, the increase in favourability will decline?
Before Li Shuoxing could recover from that blow, a new text bubble jumped out of Su Mingqianâs head.
âYou brought me books again? Thank you, Iâm very happy.â
Well said⊠you could give me a little more favourability points!
Li Shuoxing looked at the little person and wanted to cry.
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