The Self-Redemption of the Wronged Fool [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 18

“President Qi, this is a matter between him and me,” Zhao Chengyu spoke while swallowing his resentment.

Qi Ye’s expression remained gentle. “We still have work to do. If you have something to discuss, you can chat via WeChat.”

However, Zhao Chengyu’s contact information had been deleted by Ji Qiuchi eight hundred years ago. Furthermore, since the other party was not part of their project, how could Zhao Chengyu possibly possess Ji Ning’s contact details?

This single sentence forced Zhao Chengyu to suppress his fury, causing him internal injuries from the pent-up rage. The other man was a leader, while he was nothing more than an employee.

Ji Qiuchi said in a cold voice, “There is nothing to chat about. To avoid misunderstandings, it is better to speak clearly. Zhao Chengyu, listen carefully: I came to this company only for work; it has nothing to do with you. I also hope you will not appear again in the future and stop being so sentimental and full of yourself.”

Of course, this was a lie to deceive him. If it weren’t for the mission, he certainly would not have come to this company. But now, these words were intended to stab Zhao Chengyu in the heart.

Back then, the other man pursued Ji Ning because of Ji Ning’s excellence, but this fellow did not cherish what he had once he obtained it. He even pushed the original soul into hell step by step.

Wanting him to turn back? Impossible. Ji Qiuchi intended to become an existence like two different worlds that the other man could never reach.

Working at the company was originally tedious, but with such “melons” (gossip) to consume, everyone was willing to come to work every day.

The matter involving the three of them quickly spread. Aside from Zhao Chengyu, the most embarrassed person was Cui Miao.

Cui Miao’s embarrassment was not because of the words Zhao Chengyu said to Ji Ning, but rather because Ji Ning was actually held in such high regard by Qi Ye.

In front of Qi Ye, Zhao Chengyu truly was not even fit to carry his shoes. Yet, he did not understand why Qi Ye and Zhao Chengyu would suddenly start a dispute over Ji Ning.

The crowd basically understood the situation. The members of the “God’s Domain” team, in particular, felt uncomfortable all over and thought it was bad luck just to be in the same project group as him.

Cui Miao’s absent-mindedness caused him to be scolded many times, mostly by the culprit, Ji Ning. He felt the other party was absolutely using a public office to avenge a private grudge by targeting him. Even though he had already swallowed his resentment, the other party still would not let him go.

Thinking this way, he contacted the Senior Planner Gao, with whom he had eaten last time, and mentioned the “God’s Domain” project. Even though this project belonged to Qi Ye.

The company did not belong to Qi Ye alone; above Planner Gao, there was also President Ma. He refused to believe that the entire company would be willing to waste so much resources and time letting Ji Ning play around.

Planner Gao did not expect to hear such “good news.” He knew in his heart that Qi Ye was probably using the entire project to keep Ji Ning company for the sake of pursuing a lover. He immediately contacted the company’s President Ma.

However, what he did not know was that the other two owners of the company had followed Qi Ye to build the company to its current glory. Furthermore, it wasn’t as if they hadn’t investigated Ji Qiuchi’s strength.

They knew a fair amount about the project progress. They held company dividends and were wholeheartedly dedicated to the company; how could they possibly be careless?

“They say this person is proud and arrogant; letting him do ‘God’s Domain’ will cause trouble.” Ma Tianhe met Qi Ye and asked with great interest, “Speaking of which, is it true between you and Ji Ning?”

“I am still pursuing him.”

Although he heard the words Chi Chi said last time, he also knew the other party was only saying them to spite Zhao Chengyu. It was impossible for him to truly like him that much so soon; he might not even have noticed the rumors about them in the company.

Furthermore, the current Ji Qiuchi, because he extremely loathed Zhao Chengyu and Cui Miao, had thrown himself entirely into his career. It was hard to say he might complete the mission and leave this world before he could even catch up.

Qi Ye did not intend to lose heart. In the last world, he managed to make Chi Chi’s heart move; this life would surely be fine as well.

What everyone did not know was that after Cui Miao finished contacting the higher-ups, he did not intend to stop. He directly vented on forums and his own social media accounts.

He occasionally shared some company decorations and life updates, which proved his identity. Many gamers would also keep a watch on Cui Miao’s accounts.

The players were naturally very much looking forward to the new game’s internal testing, but there had been no news. After hearing that a new planner had been swapped in, and that this planner was not very good, all the gamers fell into a frenzy.

Some players only played the games and did not pay attention to the game company, while others were old fans of the company who would check out any game produced by them.

However, after learning such news, many people went to inquire with other company members.

“Is Shiji (Time Trace) crazy? They made ‘Legend of the Astral Spirit’ and now they’ve become so conceited?”

“This is making a mountain out of a molehill. The game isn’t even out yet, and you’re already ‘loaning’ insults (criticizing in advance).”

“By the time the game is out, it will be too late to save it, okay? We must let the official side see our attitude. Can Great Qi take over?”

“Great Qi is the consultant. If you don’t trust the new planner, don’t you trust him?”

Of course, a portion of the players were so guided by these narratives that they could not listen to anything else. They only knew that the game they had waited for so long was going to be ruined, and they wanted to find Ji Qiuchi to make him tactfully resign and give up his position.

Regarding this matter, neither the company nor Ji Qiuchi intended to pay any mind to it. However, Cui Miao’s small tricks were indeed many; he was simply too idle.

So, for the following period, the work in his hands mysteriously increased, making him so busy that he had no time to cause trouble.

Moreover, he also felt doubt. What exactly was going on with Ji Qiuchi? Did he not go online? His mindset was completely unaffected; this matter was simply not worth mentioning to him. Planner Gao had added fuel to the fire, but it failed to raise any waves!

On the contrary, the work in his hands became somewhat difficult to handle.

Cui Miao was as exhausted as a dog every day and had no time to deal with Zhao Chengyu.

And for some unknown reason, Zhao Chengyu actually came to find him frequently. Of course, most of it revolved around news of “God’s Domain” and Ji Ning.

Cui Miao felt irritable in his heart: “Could it be that you still have Ji Ning in your heart?”

“No, how could I still have him in my heart? My heart naturally only has you. It’s just that he hindered me from entering the project.

‘God’s Domain’ is very likely to be destroyed in his hands. I truly find it hard to accept. No matter what, we are employees of Shiji; no one is willing to see our company’s game quality decline.”

Zhao Chengyu also knew how to read faces. At this time, he actually had a way with coaxing men, using all sorts of sweet words.

Cui Miao also felt that he had been too agitated. But during these days, the eye-rolling from everyone in the company, the difficulties from Ji Qiuchi, and the coldness of Qi Ye all made him very resentful.

Planner Gao was also essentially useless. Cui Miao felt that he could no longer stay in this group; he did not want his resume to be tarnished.

Of course, Cui Miao also incited many people to resign with him, intending to show Ji Ning some color.

However, after he submitted his application to withdraw from the group, not a single person chose to withdraw with him. But after Cui Miao withdrew, Zhao Chengyu instead hid it from him and applied to get in.

When Cui Miao found out, he almost went crazy with anger: “I already told you, following him has no future. This project has problems. Are you actually still going to squeeze your way in?”

“But after you withdrew, if we both want to know his situation, wouldn’t we have no way?”

Zhao Chengyu said, “And we can’t just swallow this resentment directly, can we?”

He spoke as if it were a real concern. Cui Miao sighed and said softly: “Brother Chengyu, not entering their group is a good thing. This project is definitely finished, and I have already thought of a way to make him get lost.”

Cui Miao knew many international leakers, and most of the information in their hands was actually provided by him. He didn’t give much, but over these years, he had made quite a bit of money.

Now, with the participation in “God’s Domain,” countless game companies were facing a formidable enemy, trying every possible way to know the information of this game.

Cui Miao thought that if he leaked it before “God’s Domain” came out, he could stabilize the minimum loss. If one truly put it that way, he was actually doing a good deed.

He sold the information and materials without hesitation, but he did not know that Ji Qiuchi was waiting for him. When his account became abnormal and he became increasingly unable to control himself, Ji Qiuchi was silently collecting evidence.

The matter of the new planner had already made netizens very angry. Of course, there were some rational players, but when the “God’s Domain” game was leaked before internal testing, everyone truly could not bear it.

They chased after Shiji’s official website with a barrage of insults, but they pushed all the blame for this onto Ji Ning’s head, thinking their confidentiality work was poorly handled.

The team members had poured all their heart and soul into this project. Seeing the game information exposed, how could they not be angry? They all looked toward Ji Ning, wanting to ask for his meaning.

Yet, they did not expect Ji Qiuchi to directly state that internal testing could begin.

At this moment, only three months had passed since he took over the game. Although “God’s Domain” had been under development for all these years, and Qi Ye was also working on it with his own small team, it was only this year that the entire company recruited employees into the group to make the game. And now it could be internally tested?

This time, even they felt it was unreliable. However, what everyone did not expect was that the three directors of the company all gave the go-ahead for internal testing.

They had not only obtained the autonomous consciousness program for virtual characters from Ji Qiuchi, but also programs for accelerating the game architecture and various functional technical debugging, which were countless times faster than the game architecture of “Legend of the Astral Spirit.” What the human labor had to do was actually only a small part of the tasks.

They were naturally also in disbelief and even felt that internal testing could only happen at the beginning of next year. But when Ji Qiuchi demonstrated it to everyone, President Ma and President Luo were stunned. This time, they had truly latched onto a giant leg.

Those various games that imitated their “Legend of the Astral Spirit” would now be left far behind them again.

“God’s Domain,” an open game more suitable for “global babies” (everyone), with no grinding and no “pay-to-win,” where one could even earn money to eat through the game; the trading system was perfect. It was impossible for “studios” (gold farmers) to farm items because the accounts had face recognition devices and a powerful firewall program.

The start of internal testing was announced, and everyone went crazy. Cui Miao, who had been single-mindedly wanting Ji Qiuchi to suffer a great loss, never expected the other party to start internal testing without another word, which instead directly sent a wave of traffic to him.

And those players who had originally planned to wait for a year or two or over ten months silently shut their mouths and scrambled for internal testing slots.

Right now was actually not the best time for game release, but because of the traffic from the two incidents, the attention on their “God’s Domain” rose directly.

Many review streamers abandoned the tasks in their hands to see what exactly was going on with the “God’s Domain” that had been advertised two years ago.

Ji Qiuchi had not actually completely erased Qi Ye’s shadow. It would be more accurate to say that he did not change the core of this game; he only made the plot and story of this game more complete, used technology to help the game perform better, and he had been to ten thousand worlds these were all his experiences.

“God’s Domain” was a game aimed at the global market, so it naturally involved various cultural styles, including those deities of theirs.

Currently, their exquisite art style and operational procedures completely outperformed all other games. Of course, players who did not like the 2D/anime style could wait for another game.

One month later, while everyone was in the heat of internal testing, the “Easter eggs” buried in this game by Ji Qiuchi were discovered.

A “generalist” game streamer’s statement about wanting to marry a game character ignited the circle.

“Are the obsessed people going crazy? No matter how good a game character is, you can’t be like this, right?”

“Family members, enter the Home System, talk to the characters, and you will know.”

“Is it the one I’m thinking of?

‘God’s Domain’ is truly amazing. If you put the characters you pulled into the Home System, you can chat with them via voice, make voice calls, and have video calls. The characters will even gossip with each other, really!”

“? But even so, it shouldn’t go that far, right? Isn’t this a feature that Otome games have? Although this game is considered an action game.”

“It’s not like that. There are no options for what you want to say. You only need to input it yourself or say it yourself, and the character will respond to you. The answers will not repeat, and it’s not a mechanical voice.

Rather, it is a voice with true emotion. This isn’t something a voice actor can achieve, right? This is the ‘wife’ (waifu) manifesting.”

“Holy crap?”

“Holy crap? Holy crap!”

“I’m uneducated, but I’m truly shocked. Let me see, what good stuff has Shiji produced again?”

As the only person who withdrew from the project group, Cui Miao did not expect the game to explode during internal testing, and an internal test code was being sold for a five-digit figure.

The internal testing players were also very distressed, wailing for them to hurry up with the public beta; they truly could not bear to have the data of their wife/husband/daughter/son cleared.

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