Cannon Fodder Genius Game Producer - Chapter 19

Chapter 19: The 19th Day of a Blockbuster

Pei Shu didn’t feel there was anything wrong with making rational use of a “Golden Finger,” nor did he think it was a big deal for an adult to use some tactical schemes.

However, there is a distinction between low-grade and high-grade tactics and schemes.

Once he grew suspicious of Lin Cheng, he searched the WG platform’s outsourcing transaction groups, using keywords decomposed from all the problems Super God encountered today.

As he expected, every keyword matched an anonymous outsourcing order. But Lin Cheng’s “caution” perhaps ended there.

Aside from using anonymity as his sole means of concealment, Lin Cheng had posted these outsourcing requirements during the exact same time frame on the same day.

The stench of stupidity overflowing from the screen left Pei Shu at a loss for words.

If it weren’t for the fact that the outsourcing transaction group was divided into many different sub-groups—functional testing, art, numerical values, client-side programming, server-side programming—someone likely would have noticed this series of dense and peculiar orders long ago.

Perhaps this was the luck belonging to a “Protagonist”?

The Plot Will tends to blur the irrational actions of a “Protagonist,” causing the vast majority of people to subconsciously overlook many details related to them.

However, this blurring could not block Pei Shu, who already suspected Lin Cheng and was monitoring him in the shadows.

After matching Lin Cheng’s orders one by one with the problems encountered in the Super God public beta today, Pei Shu glanced at the organized comparison document.

It was to the extent that anyone with eyes would realize there was a problem.

If Lin Cheng had merely stood up as the savior of the Super God project by taking advantage of someone else’s negligence through the special luck given by the Plot Will, Pei Shu wouldn’t be this angry.

But the content before him was enough to prove that Lin Cheng had calculatedly and systematically arranged this series of steps—including the water army that blacklisted Jixing Studio and praised Lin Cheng.

This could no longer be called profiting from chaos; he had personally manufactured a series of chaotic situations, ultimately intending to make Jixing Studio and even the game Super God into his stepping stones!

Ignoring the painstaking effort countless people put into Super God, ignoring the reputation Jixing Studio had spent nearly 20 years building for itself, he casually broke and trampled upon everything these people cherished, all for his own “cool factor.”

All of this only proved that Lin Cheng not only lacked the slightest reverence for games but also lacked a shred of love for them. He viewed games and everyone involved merely as tools for his “Stallion Novel” life.

With a silent fury, Pei Shu clicked “Upload” on the organized materials.

In the gaming forums of the WG platform, players were originally still discussing the sudden accident of the new Super God expansion.

After all, although trolls had been agitating the narrative that “Jixing Studio oppresses capable employees and denies them opportunities,” real-life examples of “Jixing Studio supporting every promising employee” were still fresh in people’s minds before today.

Even if some people were indeed swayed when the trolls were at their loudest, a bit of calm reflection would tell them that this narrative was likely unreliable.

However, about 10 minutes ago, a piece of bombshell news was disclosed—Shock! It turns out Teacher Bu Shu, who disappeared for 8 years, actually joined Jixing Studio?! Another iron-clad proof of Jixing Studio’s unfairness to capable employees!!

The “Teacher Bu Shu” mentioned in this news was a document stamped with Jixing Studio’s internal official seal, clearly taken from a candid angle. The start date on the document was roughly when Teacher Bu Shu disappeared from the internet, and the resignation date was the very day Teacher Bu Shu reappeared.

The data even included a statement of works from before the employee’s entry, one of which mentioned two game projects Teacher Bu Shu had once hosted.

Crap! Is this for real??

Players on the WG platform were stunned by this news.

If this news was true, then Jixing Studio had not released any project hosted by Teacher Bu Shu to this day, and there had been no news of Teacher Bu Shu being at Jixing within the industry…

In 8 years, was it possible for someone of Teacher Bu Shu’s caliber to remain so nameless?

If that were truly the case, the only possibility seemed to be that Teacher Bu Shu was indeed suppressed by Jixing Studio?

Public opinion was raging online. Combined with the Super God update accident, player attention toward Jixing Studio climbed to its highest point.

Inside Jixing Studio, Lin Cheng looked at the news he had just sent out, feeling secretly triumphant.

At the same time his first mandatory mission was completed, the system’s mission reward gave him an extra piece of information—a partial resume for Teacher Bu Shu.

The system suggested he make effective use of the reward data. He glanced at the resume and laughed immediately.

Teacher Bu Shu was actually a former employee of Jixing Studio too?

The fact that Teacher Bu Shu spoke up for Jiang Ziye earlier had already been etched into Lin Cheng’s heart, not to mention that his mandatory missions included one to “slap Teacher Bu Shu in the face.”

This data from the system came at just the right time!

Lin Cheng glanced at the resignation date on the resume and discovered to his surprise that it was the exact same day he joined.

Staff turnover at Jixing Studio was not frequent. Throughout April, his entry was the only one, and Pei Shu’s resignation was the only one.

Lin Cheng quickly remembered that on the day he joined, he had indeed encountered a Jixing employee while taking the elevator and had never seen that person again.

Could it be…

That person was Teacher Bu Shu?

Lin Cheng knew that the workstation he had inherited belonged to that employee. He had a vague impression that Zhang Sui, sitting next to him, had mentioned the employee’s name was… Pei Shu.

He also remembered Zhang Sui’s evaluation of this Pei Shu’s work ability—”abysmal.”

Looking at the mandatory mission to slap Teacher Bu Shu on his system panel, Lin Cheng smiled secretly and then released the news that Teacher Bu Shu had once worked at Jixing Studio to the internet.

By leveraging today’s atmosphere, he would first slap Jixing Studio and those who initially looked down on him, and simultaneously use online public opinion to praise Teacher Bu Shu before slapping him back. That would complete three-quarters of his mandatory “slap in the face” missions.

As for Jiang Ziye.

When more and more people online believed in his, Lin Cheng’s, outstanding ability, wouldn’t the public opinion environment Jiang Ziye created with The Stolen Life collapse on its own?

Would slapping him be difficult then?

Thinking of all this, Lin Cheng was absolutely self-satisfied.

Pei Shu had released those organized materials directly using his main account, “Teacher Bu Shu.”

After the materials were posted, Pei Shu simultaneously received a series of frantic @ mentions on the WG platform.

@Teacher Bu Shu, ahhhh, is this real? Were you suppressed at Jixing Studio before??

@Teacher Bu Shu, Jixing Studio suddenly stopped nurturing you? So the 8 years you disappeared were completely wasted at Jixing Studio?

@Teacher Bu Shu, this is so strange. I’ve followed Jixing Studio’s works in recent years, and none of them have your style. So, Teacher, did you really not lead any important tasks at Jixing all these years?

The players online were quite filled with righteous indignation, feeling that Jixing Studio was truly being inhumane.

Inside Jixing Studio, the members who had just finished solving the Super God expansion issues also noticed the news online, and everyone was looking at each other in bewilderment.

“What the hell? Teacher Bu Shu was in our studio for the past 8 years?”

“That’s impossible, right? If Teacher Bu Shu were here, wouldn’t he have been fast-tracked to sub-studio lead?”

“Exactly. A talent of Teacher Bu Shu’s level should have been on a special track. How could he be overlooked… could it be a misunderstanding?”

The Jixing members, who had finally managed to rest for a moment, were now consuming fresh “melons” (gossip) about their own studio.

The main point was that the source was unknown; they weren’t even sure if it was true or false.

Ever since Teacher Bu Shu reopened his livestream, nearly every member of Jixing Studio had become a “passerby fan” of his. The moment this news emerged, the studio’s group chat messages wouldn’t stop popping up.

Soon, someone began analyzing the data.

Joined Jixing 8 years ago, resigned just this April.

Holy crap, this doesn’t even need analyzing, right?!

Zhang Sui, who was also watching the messages in the group, nearly jumped up on the spot: That’s impossible!

Although Zhang Sui’s impression of Pei Shu had improved in the last two days before he left, in the fixed impression of the past 8 years, Pei Shu was indeed a “useless” character. Even in this round of BUG data, for some reason, the problematic data Pei Shu had provided previously still remained.

Under these circumstances, who could believe that Pei Shu was a titan like Teacher Bu Shu???

It can’t be Pei Shu…

This is too fake?

The dates in this data seem to only fit Pei Shu, but if it is Pei Shu, one can only say this data is fake news, right?

The chat records in the studio were jumping frantically, but no one could get a final, direct answer.

Until someone yelled. Teacher Bu Shu posted too!!!

Only then did everyone’s attention shift, beginning to wonder what Teacher Bu Shu had posted at this time.

The first person to call out immediately forwarded the post Teacher Bu Shu made on his personal WG homepage to the studio group.

Teacher Bu Shu: Happened to be following the release of the Super God expansion today. Very much a regret regarding the update accident. However, due to personal needs recently, I’ve been following the WG outsourcing transaction group quite closely. Combining that with the Super God update accident, I’ve discovered some suspicious points. Here is some evidence for everyone’s reference.

Pei Shu understood the psychology of players perfectly.

He didn’t describe the matter in a 100% certain tone; instead, he took a stance of suspicion. In this situation, the vast majority of players would be curious—even Teacher Bu Shu only thinks he’s found suspicious points? Then let’s all analyze it together!

Sometimes, things people discover themselves are the truths they believe in most unshakably.

It was driven by this psychology that players clicked on the link to the evidence document Pei Shu had organized.

Then, the next second.

Holy crap?!

What the hell, these aren’t ‘suspicious points,’ this is iron-clad proof, right?!

Someone is targeting Super God?! How did they do it… I scanned through them one by one, and this string of anonymous tasks posted on April 12th corresponds exactly to each BUG in this Super God update accident, right??

How is it possible… my brain is fried, you can even do it like this?

Who exactly is this person? To actually arrange this series of bugs for Super God half a month in advance and leave the people of Jixing Studio completely unaware???

Is this real…

In just a few minutes, the players online exploded in an instant.

Pei Shu’s evidence document was an online shared document. Not only did it include various screenshots, but it also attached the task links for the anonymous account’s outsourcing posts.

Although the more specific content in the task links was confidential, looking only at the basic requirements or task titles, they matched the Super God accident almost perfectly.

After the players’ own calculations, the entire set of tasks distributed across the WG platform’s outsourcing groups had nearly 80% overlap with today’s Super God accident.

At the same moment, everyone in Jixing Studio, who had been discussing Teacher Bu Shu just a second ago, also exploded.

Crap! Who is the person behind these outsourcing orders?!

As members of Jixing Studio, they had just participated in today’s emergency mission. While players online only dared to guess that these things had 80% overlap with today’s BUGs, they saw it much more clearly the overlap between these outsourcing solutions and today’s BUGs was definitely over 90%.

One could even say 100% wasn’t out of the question!

This was almost equivalent to saying that someone had predicted their BUGs in advance and sought solutions by comparing them 1:1 against those BUGs.

Why was this?

The members of Jixing Studio couldn’t fathom the reason.

In fact, the BUGs that exploded today were definitely not the unsolvable kind; the crisis only lay in damaging the reputation of Jixing Studio and the game Super God, while solving them required a certain amount of time.

Aside from that, the difficulty of solving the BUGs wasn’t high.

For a person capable of predicting all of Super God‘s BUG content half a month in advance and secretly replacing the official expansion update package with the BUG version, no matter his ultimate goal, it was impossible for him to be unable to solve these BUGs.

Let alone making a huge scene by posting such moronic outsourcing orders on the WG platform.

For an expert capable of delivering such a “dimensionality reduction strike” against Jixing Studio, handling these BUGs should have been easy as pie.

So why did he post these on the WG platform’s outsourcing groups?

The only reason the studio members could think of was now down to one point. This is a blatant humiliation of Jixing Studio!

The studio members were exceptionally furious at this moment. They couldn’t understand which rival studio would use such low-handed methods to humiliate Jixing Studio’s painstaking work, nor could they figure out which internal member was cooperating with a rival to sabotage the studio.

Without the cooperation of internal personnel, this incident could not have reached such a level.

The studio’s top leaders, led by Wang Fei, immediately gathered with solemn expressions for a meeting.

Halfway through the meeting, Lin Cheng received a message telling him to go to the conference room.

Seeing this message, Lin Cheng’s expression changed—what had those people thought of, and why would they call him into the meeting?!

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