Cannon Fodder Genius Game Producer - Chapter 18

Chapter 18: The 18th Day of a Blockbuster

April 2021 was a month of relentless ups and downs for those following the domestic gaming circle.

“Teacher Bu Shu,” who had vanished for eight years, returned to the scene. During a livestream unboxing a 2013-era GM4 console, he actually produced a First Generation unit and successfully uncovered the ultimate easter egg of Tracer Studio’s classic work, Sky Demon Thief, which had been hidden for eight years.

Simultaneously, Teacher Bu Shu used nearly 1:1 precise reasoning in his live room to guess the differences between the First Generation GM4 and subsequent standard models.

It could be said that Teacher Bu Shu, almost single-handedly, forced the Biak Group to issue an apology letter and compelled them to release an overclocking patch for standard GM4 models.

This was a massive celebration for console gaming enthusiasts worldwide. In just one day, Teacher Bu Shu regained over a million die-hard fans. Among them, several overseas “Easter Egg Hunter” studios sent shout-outs across the void, hoping Teacher Bu Shu would join their ranks to hunt for more legendary secrets.

Following the discovery of the ultimate Sky Demon Thief secret, the Biak Group decided to open sales for 500 original factory First Generation units per month. On Biak’s official website, the price for these units remained identical to standard models, and the company maintained that the configurations were exactly the same, while also announcing the upcoming release of the GM5 later this year…

Despite these claims, when the first batch of First Generation units went on sale in April, they were snatched up within a single second. Players like “Young Master Only Has Money” even frantically offered extra cash, wanting nothing more than to own a true First Generation machine.

Aside from the GM4 craze stirred by Teacher Bu Shu, another matter was far more bewildering, referred to in the circle as the “Mystery of the True and False Producers.”

During this April season, Crazy Graduation Season and The Stolen Life suddenly surged in the rankings on the WG publishing platform. One was an old game released months ago, and the other was a crudely made mini-game, yet the stories behind them triggered a competitive discussion among countless people.

During this period, an individual who takes game art outsourcing orders posted a conversation with Jiang Ziye—the very dialogue depicted in the screenshot in The Stolen Life.

This communication happened very early, even predating the release of Crazy Graduation Season, but it was only separated from the launch date by two days.

This evidence seemed to prove that Jiang Ziye was indeed not a plagiarist; after all, his conversation predated the release of Crazy Graduation Season. According to the freelancer, Jiang Ziye had contacted him even earlier to discuss production content.

But at the same time, while Jiang Ziye’s content was still in a vague conceptual stage, Lin Cheng released the finished product just two days later?

As a result, someone on the WG platform joked: Between Jiang Ziye and Lin Cheng, one must be a transmigrator, otherwise this result cannot be explained!

Aside from all this, one of the largest domestic games—Jixing Studio’s Super God—was set to release a new expansion pack at the end of April.

According to leaks from the Super God test server, the new expansion would feature entirely new maps and characters, all highly anticipated. New skill combinations, new environments, new class synergies, and a brand-new season… players were just waiting for the update to go live so they could dive in and master the new environment!

Ding-ding-ding!!!

Warning! Host’s identity as a reborn individual is encountering suspicion! Please act with caution!

Caution?

Lin Cheng slammed the table viciously. He had already been damn cautious!

Ever since that fellow Jiang Ziye released that piece-of-trash game, he had been living with his tail between his legs at Jixing Studio for over a week. Zhang Sui, who sat next to him, looked at him with eyes that said something was wrong everywhere.

Lin Cheng had had enough of this feeling. He missed his previous days immensely—why should a winner of life like him, who was reborn and bound to a system, suffer such humiliation and contempt?

He felt his system wasn’t anything good either. It forced him to complete missions every day with its “ding-ding-ding” but didn’t give many benefits. He was dissatisfied that he hadn’t bound a system that let him spend money frantically, but rather this “King of Games” system.

Take that temporary mandatory mission to “Stop Life Satisfaction Decline”—he had worked so hard to complete it, only for the system to judge his completion rate as low and decay the reward, forcing a “B-rank classic game” on him that he couldn’t even choose.

Lin Cheng had to dig through his memories from before his rebirth for a long time to finally find this B-rank game. He remembered it was a “pay-to-win” game that had been flamed heavily—giving him such a game, did it even match his title as the King of Games?

However…

Lin Cheng listened to the busy discussions within Jixing Studio. The Super God expansion was about to go live, and the good days for these Jixing fellows were coming to an end.

Lin Cheng thought the day for his satisfying “face-slapping” was finally coming!

Once he slapped these people in the face, the rewards for those mandatory missions surely wouldn’t be too bad.

Thinking of this, Lin Cheng could hardly wait for the day the Jixing expansion went live and collapsed.

Pei Shu was also waiting for the day Super God went live. He wanted to know the level of stubbornness of the “Plot Will”—whether it would still direct a reputational collapse for Jixing Studio even after he had resigned and pointed out the hidden risks.

However, before Super God went live, Pei Shu met with Jiang Ziye.

The two met at a cafe not far from Daonan Road. Pei Shu originally thought he had nothing to do and wanted to pick a place closer to Jiang Ziye for the student’s convenience.

Instead, Jiang Ziye suggested they shouldn’t be too close to the university.

Midnight 30: I’m a bit embarrassed. If we’re too close to the University Town area, it’s easy to attract a crowd.

Pei Shu understood. This was a side effect of the “True and False Producers” heated discussion. Jiang Ziye was already a celebrity at the University of Science and Technology, and after such a drama, he indeed attracted attention when out.

Pei Shu’s residence was quite close to this cafe. He thought he would arrive early, as he was there 20 minutes before the appointment, but a young man in his early twenties was already sitting at the reserved table.

“Jiang Ziye?” Pei Shu asked with a smile.

Jiang Ziye immediately turned to look at Pei Shu: “Teacher Bu Shu?”

Jiang Ziye’s voice was full of surprise. He had been watching Teacher Bu Shu’s review videos for over a decade, but Teacher Bu Shu never showed his face back then. Today was the first time he saw Teacher Bu Shu’s true appearance.

The Teacher Bu Shu before him looked younger than expected. His slightly naturally curly hair was a bit long but didn’t look messy. His lean jawline and eyes that naturally seemed to smile combined into a stunning image that one wouldn’t forget at a glance.

Jiang Ziye’s face turned slightly red as he stood up to greet Pei Shu.

Pei Shu also took a look at Jiang Ziye as he stood. He truly deserved to be called the “Campus Prince” by the students of the University of Science and Technology; his eyes were clear and gentle, and he lacked any air of arrogance. Even after months of enduring undeserved insults, he had shed his previous despair and gloom after his recent self-clarification.

Seeing this Jiang Ziye, Pei Shu’s eyes were full of appreciation.

“Sorry to keep you waiting.”

This was the first meeting for Pei Shu and Jiang Ziye, but Jiang Ziye knew every video Pei Shu had ever made by heart—he was a very qualified fanboy.

Toward the end, Jiang Ziye thanked Pei Shu once more: “Thanks to your previous suggestion, Teacher Bu Shu.”

“It was nothing. That was your work; you would have thought of that loophole sooner or later.”

Jiang Ziye shook his head slightly and said awkwardly, “For those few months, I felt like I was possessed. I was in utter despair. I was even prepared to drop out and go home; I couldn’t gather the will or thought to fight back. If you hadn’t replied to me that day and told me ‘the work will speak,’ I wouldn’t have been able to do this on my own.”

Hearing this, Pei Shu’s expression became serious.

“In any case,” Jiang Ziye hesitated, “though it sounds a bit strange, that Lin Cheng… is not quite right.”

Pei Shu understood the meaning behind Jiang Ziye’s words. Because of his experience, Jiang Ziye had become suspicious of Lin Cheng.

As a creator, Jiang Ziye found it hard to imagine that another person could be on the exact same wavelength, producing a finished game identical to his imagination, even down to the hidden easter eggs.

While playing Crazy Graduation Season, a voice in Jiang Ziye’s heart kept telling him: This is your game.

But his logic told him—this game does not belong to you.

He had struggled with this sense of fragmentation for two days before truly letting go. He told himself that Crazy Graduation Season indeed did not belong to him; no matter how familiar the content felt, it was not something created by his own hands.

Pei Shu nodded, didn’t talk about it in detail, and turned the topic to his original purpose—he was there to invite Jiang Ziye to join his game production studio.

“I’m willing!”

Pei Shu had barely started the invitation before Jiang Ziye accepted with great excitement.

Pei Shu chuckled and shook his head: “Ziye, this studio of mine is very small. It’s a startup. I haven’t even introduced the conditions or the planned projects to you. You’re being too impulsive.”

“With your grades and level, you could try applying to the big major companies.”

Jiang Ziye looked at Pei Shu with firm eyes full of light: “I’ve looked forward to collaborating with Teacher Bu Shu for a long time. Having this chance, I absolutely won’t miss it!”

Seeing Jiang Ziye’s determination, Pei Shu was also happy: “Alright, then I’ll introduce the next plan to you…”

In this cafe on Daonan Road, Pei Shu introduced the studio’s assembly and project expectations to Jiang Ziye one by one, before finally smiling and shaking his hand.

“Welcome to the Bu Shu Game Studio.”

After inviting Jiang Ziye to join, the progress of the studio—which previously had only Pei Shu preparing—sped up considerably.

The day after Pei Shu finalized the studio office location, on April 28th at 9:30 AM, Jixing Studio’s Super God expansion pack went live for update as scheduled.

Hundreds of thousands of players swarmed in at the same moment. Even an update package of nearly 1GB couldn’t hold players back for long in today’s high-speed network environment.

Less than five minutes after the new version went live, players began logging in one after another to check the update announcements, new store items, and new characters.

In Jixing Studio, the members of the Super God project team were all on standby. Jixing didn’t have many employees; at this moment, even those not on the project were ready to mobilize for support if an accident occurred.

In the apartment on Daonan Road, Pei Shu had no other plans today. After getting up early, he sat on the sofa in the corner of the living room with his phone, soaking in the sun while opening the already-updated Super God.

After logging in, the first thing Pei Shu opened was the in-game store—this was the site of the severe data collapse incident in the original plot. He felt that the “Plot Will” wouldn’t let this BUG go so easily. He had even specifically sent a new message to Wang Fei on WeChat last night, reminding him to watch for BUGs in various values during the final tests.

Old Wang, in the midst of his extreme business the night before the test, had even sent back a message cursing: You brat, you have the mind for this now? You were happy enough slacking off before!

Since Old Wang had seen the message, Pei Shu felt the problem shouldn’t be large today. But when he opened the game store, what he saw was still that version with the incorrect values he had previously organized.

What was going on?!

“Fuck, something happened!!”

The project team members in Jixing Studio discovered the problem in the 10th minute.

In the game store, items that were planned to be low-priced, long-selling goods were priced more than 10 times higher than the original price, while the prices for rare character skins were less than one-twentieth of the normal price…

At the same time the studio realized something had gone wrong, a massive number of screenshots flooded the Super God bar on the WG platform.

Is the price in the new version of Super God collapsing??? What’s the situation? Has the numerical planner for Super God gone crazy??? Xi Chen’s skin is only 30 bucks??? Crap, that’s not the problem, right? Isn’t this Sun God version of Xi Chen’s skin a limited-edition skin?? Why was this version released??? What’s with this new character? The damage value is a BUG, right? They can’t release skills even when the cooldown is up??? New classes cannot be selected… What the hell, the price of a gacha stone is more expensive than the whole skin, why even pull??

Players online never expected that Jixing Studio, which was always known for being reliable, would drop the ball on a “Super S-rank” project like Super God. This wasn’t just a small bug; this mountain of problems shouldn’t exist in a normally released game.

In the interval between the completion of the new version and the full package going live, game test engineers should have conducted dozens of rounds of back-and-forth testing on this content. Even if these situations had existed during internal testing, they shouldn’t have appeared in the final update.

“There’s something wrong with this update package!” The engineer responsible for uploading the full update package urgently checked all content. In fact, before he could even unpack the body to arrange for screening, he saw the version number of the update package.

“This is the test package from 20 days ago! The version number of this test package is only one digit different from the final version.” Sweat broke out on the test lead’s head. “But this shouldn’t happen, how could it have been replaced with the final update package…!”

Jixing Studio’s screening process was very rigorous; theoretically, such a problem shouldn’t occur. Even if the version numbers were only one digit apart, or even if the names were identical, their people should have checked it countless times. It shouldn’t and couldn’t happen.

And the worst was yet to come. When Wang Fei realized the severity of the problem, he immediately decided to shut down the servers while issuing announcements and apology letters to prevent the situation from escalating. However, the players who had entered the game discovered not only the series of numerical and skill issues, but some were directly stuck on the loading screens, and massive lag issues appeared in-game.

“There’s a problem with this update package, it’s affected the client itself. Even if we shut down and update again now, players will need to uninstall and reinstall the game…”

“We don’t know why the official update package was replaced with this problematic one. It will take time to assemble a new full package now…”

The lead programmer for the Super God project never thought he would encounter something so ridiculous.

Wang Fei gritted his teeth and asked: “If we troubleshoot the update package immediately, is it possible to add a patch to the fixed update package to repair the damaged clients?”

The lead programmer was scratching his head frantically: “It’s possible, it’s possible, but we don’t even know what the client problems caused by this package are yet. The difficulty of fixing it won’t be small. If a fix patch isn’t provided in time, every minute of delay will worsen the spread of this incident. The longer the delay, the further the reputation of the Super God project will be damaged.”

Wang Fei took several deep breaths. This update accident was too large, and the problems exposed within it were things the veterans of Jixing Studio had never even imagined.

“Close the servers first!”

Wang Fei could only make this decision first, while telling the operations lead to draft a compensation and apology plan.

Inside Jixing Studio, from the moment the problem was discovered, everyone was tense and worried to the extreme. This update accident was unprecedented for Jixing, inevitably making many studio members facing such an impact for the first time extremely nervous.

Among these nervous people, only Lin Cheng, sitting at his workstation with his head down, had a tiny smile creeping onto the corners of his mouth.

He had been waiting for the day of Jixing’s update accident for a long time. However, because of the Jiang Ziye incident and the mandatory “face-slapping” mission hanging over his head, he didn’t feel comfortable letting things develop naturally.

Specifically, when he checked the project’s numerical documents and found that the store item values—which had clear accidents in his memory—were correct, Lin Cheng couldn’t sit still. If this BUG accident was gone, wouldn’t the chance he had waited for so long to become Jixing Studio’s savior be gone?!

Thinking of this, he searched through the system’s exchange shop for a long time and finally found an item in a corner called One-Time Game BUG Experience Pack.

According to the description, this was an item that could amplify all existing BUGs (including test versions) and hidden BUGs by 20 times and trigger them. It could be used for game BUG testing.

Lin Cheng didn’t care what the item was originally meant for.

Upon finding this item, Lin Cheng immediately thought of using it on the latest update of Super God to make things go big!

For this “face-slap,” he had essentially spent a fortune.

While the “One-Time Game BUG Experience Pack” wasn’t expensive, Lin Cheng had only been reborn for over half a year, and the points he had accumulated weren’t many. Buying the BUG experience pack was just barely affordable.

Furthermore, after using this experience pack, solving these BUGs would require dealing with many problems he didn’t understand and couldn’t solve himself.

Fortunately, the BUG experience pack likely took this into account. It provided detailed descriptions for every possible triggered BUG, allowing game makers to find ways to solve them from this detailed information.

Lin Cheng then recorded all the detected problems from the BUG experience pack and, in the outsourcing transaction group on the WG platform, spent money to match the split problems with solutions.

After completing this series of preparations, Lin Cheng felt everything was ready, wanting only the signal—and today’s massive Super God update accident was the signal he had been waiting for.

Of course, he wasn’t stupid. He knew he couldn’t produce all the solutions at once for so many problems. If he did, even a fool would know something was wrong with him.

So, after the accident exploded, Lin Cheng just pretended to be busy alongside the people of Jixing Studio.

Watching the solemn expressions on the faces of everyone in the studio, Lin Cheng’s heart was full of pride and satisfaction, as if he felt the pleasure of a great revenge.

Looking at Wang Fei, whose face was very pale, a gleam flashed in Lin Cheng’s eyes: Just wait, the bigger problems are still to come.

Pei Shu was now sitting in front of his computer.

The Super God on his phone could no longer connect to the server and automatically exited, but he had managed to start recording mode before the shutdown. He then quickly switched through pages while conducting multiple tests on the attack, defense, and skills of various characters in the personal practice mode.

There was a problem!

Pei Shu clearly discovered that the BUGs in Super God had a massive gap from the BUGs he remembered when he woke up. The original numerical collapse BUG was already severe, but this current version…

Pei Shu didn’t plan to call it the official version of the new expansion.

“…A BUG concentrated version that gathered all BUGs?”

Pei Shu looked at the recording playing on his computer, unable to help but feel amazed by some of the BUGs. It was as if a problem that was originally only level 1 had suddenly surged 20 times over.

Was it the Plot Will or Lin Cheng’s influence?

Pei Shu’s brow was knit tight. Was the plot truly unchangeable, and problems would occur no matter what, or were there other issues?

At the same time, Pei Shu refreshed the homepage of the WG platform game forum.

The launch of the Super God expansion was a hot topic in the gaming circle, and with such a major accident right at launch, it was completely understandable for related topics to occupy the entire front page of the WG forum.

But Pei Shu noticed something wrong at first glance.

Logically, with such a major accident in Super God, the anger of long-awaiting players was understandable. The comments on the forum surely wouldn’t be peaceful, but there would also be some players worrying about what exactly went wrong.

However, at this moment on the WG platform, it was entirely one-sided “black posts.”

These black posts all, with one mind, were spamming that Jixing Studio had a hollow reputation and that the studio’s suppression of capable employees led to the explosion of this major update accident.

Jixing Studio, which originally had top-tier industry reputation, was described by these trolls as some black-hearted processing factory, with all sorts of ambiguous and baseless gossip emerging endlessly.

This tactic…

Pei Shu narrowed his eyes and clicked on these abnormally active black accounts one by one. In the seemingly normal posting history of these trolls, he saw many “black material” posts targeting Jiang Ziye.

It wasn’t one or two, but nearly 50% of the accounts could simultaneously match this public opinion offensive against Jixing Studio and the previous verbal attacks against Jiang Ziye.

“A water army (paid trolls).”

Pei Shu made this conclusion with certainty.

And once this conclusion was reached, it became obvious whether the person behind this incident was the Plot Will or Lin Cheng. This habitual method of acting and this uncontrollable ambition could be none other than Lin Cheng.

Greedy, incompetent, malicious, and stopping at nothing.

On the descriptive label for Lin Cheng, Pei Shu added more content. Looking at these labels, Pei Shu couldn’t understand why the so-called Plot Will and the system would choose such a person as the protagonist.

Pei Shu observed the comments of the trolls and water army on the forum without showing any emotion, secretly speculating what the ultimate goal of such blackening of Jixing Studio would be.

His fingers tapped lightly on the table. He narrowed his eyes and calculated in his heart—when Jixing Studio is overwhelmed by this series of problems in the game, they will only focus on solving the problems and will ignore these discussions online.

And when would this public opinion of “Jixing Studio oppressing capable employees” explode?

Naturally—it would be when a sudden crisis hit Jixing Studio, and an employee stood up to single-handedly turn the tide and save the studio.

—Such a capable employee is actually just an ordinary bottom-level worker? Jixing Studio truly oppresses capable employees, which is why this update accident exploded!

After understanding the logic, Pei Shu now had a clear idea of Lin Cheng’s plan.

Only… with Lin Cheng’s ability, would he really be able to solve the crisis before him?

The answer was: Yes.

The thorough preparations Lin Cheng had made before finally demonstrated their effectiveness today.

After the update accident exploded, the studio began to run frantically like a spinning top. The lead programmer was trying to parse the damage caused by the update package to the player clients as quickly as possible, preparing to write a repair patch to be included in the update package.

The test lead began testing the BUGs that appeared in the accident one by one within the existing unintegrated functional packages, discovering that while they weren’t as severe as in the accident, there were indeed more or less shadows of the BUGs from the accident present.

After the entire staff had been busy for a whole morning, Lin Cheng stood up at this time.

“Brother Wang, Brother Chen, I just did some testing as well and organized a BUG report of what I found. Could you take a look?”

When Lin Cheng said this, he was full of confidence. Chen Shan, as the test lead, took the document Lin Cheng organized. His eyelids jumped as he began to read it seriously.

Lin Cheng’s document was detailed. Many BUGs were ones they hadn’t found the cause for or couldn’t temporarily replicate, yet Lin Cheng had listed the BUGs and partial solutions very clearly.

Seeing this, Chen Shan couldn’t help but shout out his praise.

As for Wang Fei, after seeing this content from the side, he was first delighted, but then a surge of suspicion arose—why was this report from Lin Cheng in a completely different style from when he was organizing data before? It almost seemed like it had been prepared for a long time…

This thought flashed for only a second. In the next second, Wang Fei felt some guilt. Lin Cheng was working with all his might at such a critical moment for the project; how could he have such suspicion?

He shook his head and, after confirming some detailed content on the report with Chen Shan, began to quickly arrange for studio members to start working overtime to perform BUG fixes, adjustments, and tests.

As the arrangements ended, both Wang Fei and Chen Shan patted Lin Cheng on the shoulder.

“Hard work. Once this crisis passes, the project will surely reward you well!”

Lin Cheng wore a modest yet secretly proud smile: “It’s nothing, it’s nothing.”

After providing the first batch of reports, Lin Cheng subsequently provided more detailed solutions for partial problems in Jixing Studio’s internal project group, earning unanimous praise from all members in the group.

Holy shit, Lin Cheng is amazing! Incredible, this logic is great. That’s exactly it, why didn’t I think of it just now? This solution is indeed more direct.

After a series of praises, many people in the studio began to feel a bit embarrassed toward Lin Cheng in their hearts. They all previously felt that Lin Cheng—who didn’t seem to like games at all on the campus forum during university—must have truly plagiarized Jiang Ziye’s game using some special method. But now, seeing how amazing Lin Cheng was, how could he be a plagiarist?

In an instant, many people felt their “faces hurting.”

At 3:30 PM, after being shut down for a full 6 hours, the Super God servers finally reopened. The new expansion version updated this time indeed had no more problems.

During this period, Lin Cheng also provided suggestions for the apology letter and compensation rewards to the project operations. He had the operations use the most sincere attitude to confess the tension and anxiety the studio felt encountering an unknown situation, while also sending the most sincere compensation items to the players.

Simply put, the operations performed a sincere “sliding kowtow” (a groveling apology) and maximized the rewards.

The previous operations of the Super God project weren’t in this style; they were relatively more concerned with their own “prestige.” The apology letter version they originally prepared was also relatively traditional and formal, appearing to have a bit of a distance from the players. Under Lin Cheng’s suggestion, the apology letter and other content were adjusted, and they even started an emergency livestream directly on the WG platform’s official account.

the livestream content was limited to a level that wouldn’t reveal secrets and was muted, simply letting players supervise the footage of the studio frantically fixing BUGs.

This series of combination punches indeed won the players’ approval. Although there were still some scattered complaints, aside from pure trolls, most players could understand the difficulties Jixing Studio faced.

After Jixing Studio’s livestream started, the same water army also flooded into the live room, beginning to interject in the bullet chat.

Ah, that person talking with Wang Fei and Chen Shan is Lin Cheng, right? The same Lin Cheng from “Crazy Graduation Season”? He seems to be held in high regard? Where? When he first entered Jixing, they say no one even paid attention to him. But looking at it now, he seems to have gained the approval of many people… Ah, I saw someone on the forum say Jixing Studio oppresses capable employees, maybe they were talking about Lin Cheng? This… I always thought between him and Jiang Ziye, he truly was the innocent one. But if he is this capable, then something was wrong in Jiang Ziye’s evidence, wasn’t it? My face hurts. Could Lin Cheng be innocent?

From the moment the update accident exploded in the morning until now, Pei Shu had been observing the development of the situation throughout.

Having watched until now, he finally had a clear idea.

Lin Cheng was “reclaiming his face,” or rather, he was going to take the faces of those who had slapped him before or looked down on him and didn’t trust him, and slap them all back.

Earlier, when Pei Shu noticed Lin Cheng was willing to use a “secret crush on Jiang Ziye” as an excuse to whitewash himself, he vaguely guessed that one of the factors constraining Lin Cheng was the perception of those around him.

Only when those around him admired and trusted him could Lin Cheng steadily be his “Stallion Novel Protagonist.” The protection the Plot Will provided to Lin Cheng all along was also the protection of the “coolness factor” of his life.

Only by always succeeding and always pinning down people who were originally stronger than him could Lin Cheng enjoy being the protagonist—this was the main storyline of Lin Cheng’s life.

This was what constrained Lin Cheng—his absolute weakness!

At this moment, the official account for Jixing Studio’s Super God game, after the successful formal update and a series of compensation apology announcements, also separately released a thank-you announcement. The people being thanked were the members of the Super God project team who had made significant contributions during today’s emergency maintenance.

And among the names of these project team members, there was a separate name: Lin Cheng. The official Super God Weibo account expressed separate thanks to Lin Cheng for his major contribution to today’s update maintenance work.

Under this announcement from the Super God official account, just as Lin Cheng expected, various “my face hurts” replies appeared.

Inside Jixing Studio

Lin Cheng was now sitting peacefully at his workstation, accepting the praise and apologies from the studio members.

Ding Mandatory Mission: Slap the people of Jixing Studio in the face, increase Life Satisfaction. Completed.

Ding Mandatory Mission: Slap the doubters who think Lin Cheng has a problem in the face, increase Life Satisfaction. Progress 30% in progress (can be completed at 50% progress).

Watching the mission progress jump up bit by bit, Lin Cheng felt quite pleasant. He hadn’t enjoyed this light, airy feeling of looking down on everyone in a long time. Surely, this was how his life should be!

Hehe, these guys who despised him before—aren’t they now surrounding him with praise and admiration?

And it was at this time, in the Daonan Road apartment not far from the Universal Building, that Pei Shu also organized the collected materials into a complete post. He then smiled and clicked—Upload, Post.