Cannon Fodder Genius Game Producer - Chapter 11

Chapter 11: The 11th Day of a Blockbuster

Ding—Random Mission

The Host is currently encountering an unknown crisis, which may affect the Host’s growth path toward becoming the King of Games. Please perceive and overcome the crisis in a timely manner.

Mission Success Reward: One full set of planning schemes for a B-rank classic game.

Inside Jixing Studio, Lin Cheng was completing a task assigned to him by Wang Fei—the content of the order was very simple, just a standard data organization sheet.

In his past life, Lin Cheng had been a game industry professional after all. Although his abilities were mediocre, he knew how to organize data. However, he didn’t really take these data organization tasks seriously; in his view, this was just something a new intern would throw together, and doing it had little significance.

Lin Cheng organized it very casually. He slapped together a table, filled in the data, and called it a day. There was no emphasis at all; it was merely a listing based on the raw requirements.

To say he did a bad job wouldn’t be entirely correct—at the very least, what he completed was accurate. He simply lacked proactivity and a finer attention to detail.

Lin Cheng didn’t think much of it anyway. After finishing the work, he gave it a casual glance and sent the spreadsheet back to Wang Fei.

After sending it, Lin Cheng felt quite smug. He had finished the task quickly. Generally speaking, newcomers would need some time to understand the requirements for such tasks, but relying on his experience from his previous life, he saved that learning time. Compared to an ordinary newcomer, he was indeed doing better.

But the moment he sent the document out, he received that random mission in the next second.

An unknown crisis?!

Since rebirth and binding with the system, this wasn’t the first time Lin Cheng had received a random mission, but it was the first time the system had told him he was “encountering a crisis.”

What exactly was the crisis?

And it would affect his path to becoming the King of Games??

Lin Cheng felt nervous and repeatedly asked the system in his mind: What exactly is the crisis? Is there no hint at all? Without a hint, how am I supposed to respond???

Perhaps feeling that Lin Cheng had a point, the system gave a “ding” and issued a new reminder.

Ding, please review the existing plot and discover the source of the crisis.

Following this reminder, Lin Cheng saw his plot achievement page within the system. Chapter 1: Rebirth, Chapter 2: New University Life, Chapter 3: Release of the First Game, Chapter 4: Joining Jixing Studio】.

These four achievement pages contained his entire journey since rebirth. According to the system’s hint, the crisis he faced originated from these chapters.

Staring at the pages, Lin Cheng thought it over and over, but he truly couldn’t figure out where the crisis would come from.

Finally, his irritable gaze locked onto the plot of Chapter 3, the release of the first game—he knew that Jiang Ziye had always been trying to turn things around. Currently, of the four chapters, the most likely source of trouble was the uncertain factor that was Jiang Ziye.

Tsk.

Lin Cheng glared unhappily at the image of a disheveled Jiang Ziye on the achievement page. It was out of the kindness of his heart that he hadn’t crushed Jiang Ziye to death; was this Jiang Ziye now going to jump up and annoy him again?

Thinking of this, Lin Cheng re-evaluated the resources he had on hand and secretly calculated how to step on Jiang Ziye so thoroughly this time that he would never dare to show his face again.

At Wang Fei’s workstation

Wang Fei was nervously checking various content documents and data for the project. Once the busy period paused for a moment, he finally had time to handle the messages piled up on the internal communication software.

About two hours ago, Wang Fei had given the newcomer Lin Cheng a simple data organization task, intended to see Lin Cheng’s basic work ability and attitude.

Now, in less than two hours, Lin Cheng had sent the spreadsheet back. Wang Fei was reasonably satisfied with the turnaround time.

But once he opened the spreadsheet Lin Cheng sent, Wang Fei’s brows furrowed involuntarily.

It wasn’t that the spreadsheet Lin Cheng made was incorrect; for an ordinary newcomer, Lin Cheng’s data organization was relatively accurate.

However, just like his previous expectations for Pei Shu, Lin Cheng already had a successful game to his name, and his vision during the interview regarding future game trends was very forward-thinking.

Based on these considerations, Wang Fei and the others had high expectations for Lin Cheng.

Yet the document in front of him… as a veteran game professional, Wang Fei could see the casualness in it. Perhaps Lin Cheng was already very familiar with this kind of data sorting, so the result appeared somewhat half-hearted.

If there were no comparison, Wang Fei might think that Lin Cheng, who showed this level of proficiency right after joining, had good potential. But right beside him sat the data organization document submitted by Pei Shu, who had resigned that morning.

Comparing the two, Lin Cheng’s organized content seemed exceptionally careless.

This Lin Cheng… seemed not to be as good as expected.

Wang Fei’s brow was knit tight. First Pei Shu, then Lin Cheng—he was suddenly having some doubts about his own judgment of people.

Ding—Player is currently encountering a trust crisis. Plot Satisfaction: -1%.

Lin Cheng was busy thinking about how to crush Jiang Ziye when he suddenly received such a system notification.

What was going on?!

Lin Cheng nearly jumped out of his skin.

This was the first time since his rebirth that his Plot Satisfaction had been deducted. Even if it was only 1%, it indicated that his “Stallion Novel” life, which was supposed to be a smooth ride, had encountered something that made things unpleasant.

Damn it, Jiang Ziye!

It must be that damn Jiang Ziye doing something!

Grit-toothed, Lin Cheng opened his WG platform homepage. With a cold gaze, he posted a paragraph of text.

Lin Cheng: “Crazy Graduation Season” is almost over, and I believe everyone has embarked on a new journey in life. I miss every friendship and encounter during university very much. I hope “Crazy Graduation Season” once brought you a bit of happiness, and I also hope that even classmates who once had complaints against me can let go of the past and embark on a beautiful new life.

After posting this, Lin Cheng casually refreshed his WG page. Sure enough, people were already liking and commenting.

1L: First!!! Hello, Senior!!! 3L: Senior has already joined Jixing Studio, right? Too cool! Waiting for Senior to make even better games at Jixing!!

The early replies were all words of blessing and envy, until after more than ten floors of replies, Lin Cheng finally saw the content he wanted to see.

13L: Complaints? (Whispering) Senior is really a good person, actually wishing that a plagiarist can embark on a beautiful new life. Someone who plagiarizes others doesn’t deserve to have one!

17L: This is talking about JZY, right? To think I used to find him handsome and was a fangirl for a while. After that plagiarism incident, he actually dared to come out and question Senior Lin. Now this guy probably won’t even be able to graduate, right? I heard his roommates were ashamed to be in the same dorm as him and all moved out…

21L: That’s right, now he’s the only one left living in Dorm 716. He shrinks away in his room every day, afraid to go out. Just like a rat in the sewer—disgusting, he deserves it!

Seeing these, Lin Cheng smiled with satisfaction. These students were completely on his side. That Jiang Ziye had neither evidence nor a planning proposal; how could he possibly turn things around?

His statement this time would only remind everyone once again what a piece of scum Jiang Ziye was. He wouldn’t have the face to stay in school any longer. Once graduation season arrived, he would only be able to take his certificate of completion and leave Beijing in disgrace, never to rise again.

Game Studio Establishment Plan.

Pei Shu leaned back in his chair with a slight headache, his index finger lightly tapping the edge of the table. His lazy posture was devoid of his previous anger—he was currently troubled by this studio establishment plan.

Regarding this studio, Pei Shu had already made a plan. This was the cornerstone he intended to use to provoke the Plot Will and Lin Cheng, the “Stallion Novel” protagonist. While Lin Cheng had his own studio, Pei Shu also planned to use his own studio’s productions to counter Lin Cheng’s game content.

Unfortunately, the ideas were plump, but reality was skinny.

The first problem Pei Shu encountered was—he had no money.

Although he had spent the last eight years at Jixing Studio, known for high salaries, and had earned an annual salary of 100,000 as an intern, given his performance at Jixing over the years, the fact that he hadn’t been fired was entirely thanks to the “credit” of the Plot Will. As for promotions or raises, those were impossible.

Over eight years, his salary—which was 8k+ per month after tax during his internship—had not increased by a single cent until he resigned.

After deducting the monthly mortgage payments and daily living expenses, after eight years, there was almost no money left in Pei Shu’s bank account.

Excellent. Another crime added to the Plot Will’s tally.

While Pei Shu was worrying about his disposable balance, a new message popped up in the chat window.

Li Chuyue: Xiao Shu, what do you want to eat tonight? Li Chuyue: I know a great private kitchen, want to go together?

Pei Shu felt a bit of a headache seeing Li Chuyue’s (emoji). It had been eight years; what exactly had turned the once quite well-behaved Li Chuyue into such a “green tea” character?

But this afternoon, Li Chuyue had just transferred 30,000 yuan to his bank card during the stream—this amount accounted for more than half of his current bank balance.

Pei Shu rubbed his chin, suddenly feeling that his little neighbor friend was filled with the scent of decadent money. Perhaps… his impoverished game studio just happened to need the investment of such a wealthy younger brother?

Thinking of this, Pei Shu simply typed a “Sure.”

In the office of the Operations Director of the Li Group, Li Chuyue saw the simple “Sure” Pei Shu replied with, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

Meanwhile, in Dorm 716 of Beijing University of Science and Technology, Jiang Ziye looked at the easter egg content he had organized over the afternoon and took a deep breath.

They were all there. The easter egg content he had thought of in his mind was all there!

Not only that, there was also easter egg content he hadn’t even thought of yet, but which he could recognize at a glance as his own.

Looking at this information, Jiang Ziye, with a somber face, organized it all into an exceptionally long document and turned it into an extremely simple, shareable mini-game.

“The time for the counterattack has arrived.”

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