Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 104

Darkness fell, and on a dark and windy night, it was the perfect time to commit murder.

He secretly slipped into the new house and hid there, personally keeping watch over Taoyao, while the Flower Fairy kept watch over Jindeng.

After the newcomer entered and the other players and guests had all left, the two of them finished drinking the Hehe Wine (the other He is hard to find, so I won't look for it). Then, he and a flower fairy rushed forward.

He quickly covered their mouths with the sleeping potion hidden in the handkerchief and then stuck the cash withdrawal charm on them.

He approached the window, opened it, and peered outside. There was no one there, only the faint sounds of guests coming from the front yard. Everyone was still drinking.

Other players attempting to steal the bride have been blocked by layers of players and NPCs and are unable to enter.

Deng Yijun climbed out of the window, keeping watch while waving to signal the Flower Fairy to carry the person out of the window. Once out, the giant eagle quickly grabbed the person and flew away into the sky.

The flower fairies had finished their business, and the two groups met in the sky. The night was dark and peaceful, and no one noticed the giant eagles flying overhead.

Deng Yijun and the flower fairies did not exchange a single word throughout the entire process, and the giant eagle remained silent, flying as high as possible to minimize the vibration of its wings.

Unexpectedly, just as they approached the city gate, a loud explosion rang out, and a golden gate, as bright as day, appeared, with the words "The kidnappers of the newlyweds are approaching..." clearly visible on it.

The ellipsis following it flashed, just like a flashbang, and even had multicolored lights, as if afraid others wouldn't notice.

Deng Yijun was dumbfounded!

At this moment, many players who wanted to abduct the bride were blocked on the city streets, fighting to the death with the NPCs. Upon seeing the gate, they all spat out their ancestral cultural treasures and turned to run this way.

Deng Yijun quickly released the remaining flower fairies and giant eagles to attract attention, while she personally led the four newcomers to land and slip out of the chaos.

The scene was a complete mess, with people packed together, all trying to find out who the big boss was who had kidnapped the newcomer.

Deng Yijun and several flower fairies were dressed in black, and the four newlyweds were also wrapped in black robes.

Surprisingly, it was perfectly pushed through the gate by a large number of players.

After passing through the city gate, he quickly clicked to collect and immediately teleported home.

The players near the edge of the door stared blankly at the vanished man in black, filled with admiration.

The glowing gate disappeared, and fireworks exploded in the sky.

"Friendly reminder: For each successful attempt to kidnap the bride, the distance the player travels increases by 500 meters, and the distance at which the gate's special effects activate increases by 100 meters. This difficulty increase occurs three times; after three increases, the player will be unable to participate in the bride kidnapping event again."

This notice appears in every player's announcement to prevent players from using this method to create dozens or hundreds of identical retainers for resale later.

This is also to maintain the value of items and NPCs in the game world.

In other words, through normal means, players can obtain four pairs of Golden Lanterns and Peach Blossom Couple Guest Retainers.

You get one reward for completing the task, and three rewards for kidnapping the bride.

The "bride kidnapping" method is not applicable to most players. There are only so many instance areas; currently, one instance area has 20,000 players, but there are only four NPC targets.

The question of how to allocate resources became apparent after the second player successfully "robbed" the bride.

This was a truly wealthy force, with a total of eight thousand men, enough to launch a considerable war in ancient times.

They even used their superpowers to persuade their allies not to turn any players in the area into enemies.

They only need to deal with the NPCs.

The people split into two groups: one to clear the way and the other to grab people.

There were only eight people vying for the spot, and two people were needed to complete one task.

After securing the spot, they mounted the black tiger and raced towards the path their teammates had cleared. As they approached, a towering gate appeared, its light gleaming. The teammates behind them followed, clearing the way as they went. Once they passed through the gate, everyone was ecstatic.

At this point, the system determined the wedding abduction was successful, and the NPC returned home. The players, relaxed in the open space, had time to consider the distribution of spoils.

Four people, eight thousand player points—even if you break it up, it won't be enough.

So the teammates started arguing, each claiming how much credit they had and how much they should get.

They started fighting as they were talking.

Everyone here is rich; money can't solve anything. Who's short of money?

What they lack is the first allocation and the acquisition of guest advisors; they lack nothing else.

They started fighting over a disagreement.

As luck would have it, the Princess of Fortune is in this area.

She and Ximeng were watching the commotion from the sidelines with great interest when they saw four NPCs being ignored by a group of players, standing there dumbfounded.

Xi Meng nudged the leader of the Bird Alliance and said, "Go over quietly and put the four guest elders into your backpack and take them away."

These guest companions don't yet have a tag attached to a player like the Flower Fairy; they fall into the category of being able to be left behind and taken away.

The leader of the Bird Alliance swallowed hard and said, "Wouldn't that be a bit inappropriate?"

Although they said it was bad, they secretly moved closer.

Give the lucky koi a black hat to cover its glittering appearance.

Xi Meng doesn't hold anyone back. If you're lucky, you can get things done smoothly and easily, but if you're unlucky, you can't do it.

The leader of the Bird Alliance pretended to be passing by and lashed out with his whip just before it reached him, instantly wrapping the golden lantern hydrangea in its whip and throwing it towards Xi Meng. He then used the momentum to get close to Tao Yao and her husband, grabbed their wrists, and stuffed them into his backpack.

Once it enters a player's inventory, it will be tagged as "out of print" and will not be lost unless traded.

This is essential; otherwise, any rare or discontinued item could disappear easily, and players wouldn't bother to collect it.

Xi Meng was knocked to the ground by the two guest retainers, but before she could get up, she put them into her backpack.

Over there, everyone's wealthy patrons instantly shifted their firepower, unleashing rockets as thick as fists that blasted the two men to smithereens. They were sent home before anyone could even see their faces.

With the arrival of ghost soldiers and heavenly soldiers, the brawl involving so many people inevitably injured innocent people and damaged surrounding official buildings and facilities.

The group of wealthy people were already furious when their peaches were stolen, and with nowhere to vent their anger, they started fighting with the supervisors.

Today's players are not like those who are just starting out and have no weapons or fighting skills.

Nowadays, even the richest people have rocket launchers at least. Although they are crudely made, they can still make the regulators look foolish when they blast them.

Soon, several hundred ghost soldiers and heavenly soldiers were wiped out, leaving behind large craters and damaging a large portion of the city wall.

Many NPCs and onlookers were caught in the crossfire.

The player who made the move was covered in several layers of murderous aura, his eyes were bloodshot, and he couldn't stop.

At that moment, the world changed color!

Thunderclouds rolled across the sky, flashes of purple lightning, and layers of frost covered the grass and shoes. A massive black dog landed with a deafening crash, killing many of the players instantly. During the pursuit period, deaths outside meant no return home; players could only respawn on the spot.

Erlang Shen, dressed in white jade armor with a red cloak fluttering behind him, descended on a cloud of swift wind.

The towering Gates of Hell opened amidst the chilling aura, and the Black and White Impermanence emerged. The soul-binding chains they carried shot out, instantly knocking away many players and chaining a large group of them into the Gates of Hell.

The player who was thrown out was instantly transported to the dungeon and couldn't get out.

Erlang Shen opened his third eye on his forehead, and a flash of golden light appeared. The players directly in front of him fell to the ground, unable to move. Heavenly soldiers then followed and captured them.

The scene was once dark and incredibly spectacular.

With the White Impermanence protecting them, the players who were watching the spectacle were unharmed. They broadcast the entire process live and compiled it into a video that went viral on Mars.

"Ahhh, my Erlang Shen, my husband! I love you to death!"

"It's so rare to see my dream guy, I hope more of these wonderful things happen."

"These combat gamers are such great people! They actually managed to gather three male gods together, I'm impressed!"

"This is simply unbelievable! Three male gods are gathered together, and the presence of four guardians is just around the corner!"

Players were cheering for the appearance of the three guardians, completely ignoring their evil deeds.

It's just one district anyway; exchanging dozens of districts for the appearance of the three guardians wouldn't be an exaggeration. Since the beginning of the Chinese martial arts world, how long has it been since they've seen the guardians?

I'm so desperate!

The video reached Lin Shuying's ears before the event ended, which surprised her.

"I thought players would discover this gameplay at least after the next event, but I didn't expect it to be discovered on the very first day the dungeon opened."

Zhang Zhongxia laughed and said, "Boss, you underestimate the players. At least one-fifth of the things in Qingfengyi were not designed by you, but were all created by the players."

Using gunpowder from the martial arts world of Chinese martial arts to extract gunpowder for the development of RPGs, pistols, and even small robots, once caused a bug in the game.

Now, Qingfengyi is showing more and more red bugs, so Wei Linwei can no longer work with Lin Shuying to develop the game and needs to focus on maintaining it.

Even Zhang Zhongxia and He Mengqiu followed his instructions to remove loopholes and unreasonable settings.

Speaking of this, Wei Linwei hurriedly asked the boss for more people. He was here to make games, and he didn't want to end up as a game maintainer.

Lin Shuying asked, "Is there a convenient way to handle this?"

Wei Linwei said, "You can hand it over to the game platform, but you'll have to pay them. Also, they might not understand your ideas, and there could be more errors. If it were our own people, they could compile the vulnerabilities into a report, and you could review it before making any restrictions, which would be much better."

Lin Shuying: "Then let's find two more people. Qiaoqiao, you can handle this."

Lin Qiaoqiao: "Okay, boss."

After dealing with some trivial matters, Lin Shuying went to observe the players' enjoyable gameplay and was amused by their antics.

She doesn't quite agree with the idea of ​​restricting players' creativity and invention. Back in her day, how many open-world games allowed players to freely explore and create?

Few game developers can create complex designs like clothing, but they really got creative with the houses and sets.

Not only can they recreate various scenic spots and buildings in the real world, but many of the designs by top designers are also outstanding, becoming gold-medal derivative works.

In the interstellar world, players' creative actions should be even more exciting!

After all, if such good technology doesn't produce good games, it means the game itself is not good.

She started looking at the players' designs and creations in the background, and many of them were really amazing.

It's as if she's giving something away, creating beauty that she approves of just for them!

Perfect timing, I was planning to give away something anyway.

She quickly logged off. She had one day left and hoped to quickly develop a rough incentive system, aiming to improve it in the next event.

On the last day of the event, many lucky bags and bracelets floated down from the sky.

These bracelets are woven in a very distinctive way. If you're lucky, you can get an exquisite version, but if you're unlucky, you'll get a simple five-colored rope with a bodhi seed or walnut tied to it.

The player system notification indicates that Chang'e will appear in the guild to announce the end of this event.

The players rushed over and looked up at the colorful auspicious clouds in the sky.

Chang'e changed into another beautiful outfit, a rose-red and blue high-waisted ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress), with osmanthus flowers and jade rabbits intertwined in floral patterns embroidered along the edges. Her hair was styled in a half-up bun with white rabbit fur, adorned with a silver moon and jade rabbit hairpin and an osmanthus hairpin.

A light pink shawl draped across her arms, her eyebrows were arched like willow leaves, and her red lips were delicate and charming.

"Ahhh, I can't contain my excitement every time I see my goddess!"

"Goddess, become my guest, and I'll feed you roasted whole lamb every day!"

"We strongly demand that Qingfeng Yi be appointed as one of the Four Guardian Retainers!"

"We strongly demand that Qingfeng Yi be appointed as one of the Four Guardian Retainers!"

"We strongly demand that Qingfeng Yi be appointed as one of the Four Guardian Retainers!"

.......

Lin Shuying, standing in the group of players, excitedly joined in the shouting. The players were truly amazing; for some reason, everyone in this server suddenly started chanting the same phrase.

There was absolutely no background noise.

Chang'e took out the event's closing scroll and began to read: "The 'A Thousand Miles of Red Threads Connecting Soulmates' event has officially ended. In this event, player 'Gray Cave' became the best player, unlocking all items, completing all main quests, and obtaining the most complete set of items. Therefore, I hereby reward you with a Jade Rabbit Ruyi!"

After saying that, Chang'e pulled a ball of golden light from her sleeve and threw it towards the group of players.

Before the players could even process what was happening, their hands were already reaching for the sky, trying to grasp the golden light. Unfortunately, it was bound to the player, and would only fall into the hands of the gray opening.

"In addition, Qingfengyi will be updating the leaderboard side quests, including wealth, fame, talent, combat power, beauty, and more. The top 100,000 on each leaderboard will receive rewards. Please note that none of the leaderboards support paid entry. Players who do not earn points through their own efforts will not be counted."

This statement angered many paying players, who felt they had money to spare and shouldn't be allowed to spend it!

Besides, Qingfengyi isn't afraid of spending money at all.

Many players without much money can earn in-game currency by diligently farming basic resources, so why be afraid to spend real money?

Most StarCraft games rely heavily on microtransactions, and spending money to reach the top is common knowledge among StarCraft players. This mindset has been cultivated by game designers, so when a game suddenly appears that defies this logic and does things that defy common sense, they find it very distasteful.

The chat channel began to be flooded with comments expressing misunderstanding of Qingfengyi's design, the game platform crashed again, and negative reviews poured in.

Many wealthy players even bought comments to criticize Qingfengyi, saying that not being able to spend money on the game is simply a disgrace to the world of game design!

This is a small matter, just a leaderboard issue, but countless players have made it widely known, even breaking the limitations of information cocoons.

This lets many game designers outside know that they firmly stand on the side of the players.