Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 126

The items in Qingfengyi, including those produced by the studio, are not entirely made according to ancient Chinese culture; nearly 70% of them are secondary creations by Lin Shuying.

Interstellar people can't really take this as true history!

Although an announcement was made, few people cared.

The summoners are all from ancient times, and their consciousness, cognition, and behavior are mostly historical characteristics of that era.

The key is to analyze the individual characteristics involved; the rest is history.

Let's preserve their creations first, and then we can identify individual actions and historical materials later.

What they probably want isn't complete history, but rather useful history.

Lin Shuying has done what she needed to do; the rest is no longer her problem.

After the player has had their fill of watching, they enter the gate, where a cutscene suddenly appears.

A huge, fiery red eye, obscuring the sky, stared at the player.

It then began to rotate, rising higher and higher, transforming into two eyes, and then a hideous face appeared.

Its dark red body was composed of scales as large as a vast plain. This enormous creature seemed to be coiled around the entire earth, and what was raised now was only its head.

He glanced at the player, then soared into the sky, reaching an altitude of about a hundred kilometers. The force generated by the takeoff blew away the surrounding chaotic, blood-red world, turning it into gas of various colors, and these air currents became smooth.

After converging, they transformed into four wisps of light yellow, green, red, and blue-white, with colors gradually changing. The middle wisp was the darkest, and the colors mixed at the boundaries.

It corresponds perfectly to the four seasons in one season and the different seasons in each season.

In the sky, the enormous creature, resembling a dragon but not quite, exhaled a breath of orange-red flame, separating the four mixed clouds of air. Then it inhaled, drawing the separated clouds of air into the sky.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the stars were actually acupoints on the body of this colossal creature. These acupoints were open, allowing the gas clouds to be seen by the player.

After the air mass was sucked away, the earth was covered with a layer of ice, and the temperature dropped rapidly.

It's hell for people with megalophobia!

Even interstellar warships aren't this big, it's terrifying!

This scene, designed by Lin Shuying, is based on the story of the Zhulong dragon in her previous life in China, which divided the four seasons and controlled the night and day. Legend has it that when the Zhulong dragon inhaled, it took away the heat, and winter would come.

When you exhale and blow out hot air, summer arrives.

When your eyes are open, it's daytime; when they're closed, it's nighttime.

This claim contradicts the theory of the Golden Crow shining on the sun, but both are myths imagined by the ancients based on the workings of nature, and the same thing can be interpreted in countless ways.

The colossal creature glanced at the player one last time, then closed its eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

After He falls asleep, the energy clusters in those acupoints gradually release airflow with each breath, and the moving energy clusters are different at different times. The state of the world is also different. When the pale yellow energy cluster is in the dominant position, the earth's temperature gradually rises, all things begin to grow on the earth, and it gradually turns green.

At this point, its diffusion weakens and weakens, then the next green movement begins, the earth starts to turn completely green, flowers wither, and fruits grow on trees.

Red lights are on, leaves are falling, and the aroma of fruit and ripe wheat fills the air.

White blossoms emerge, leaves hide no fruit, the earth is covered in frost.

This cycle repeats itself, and that is the cycle of the four seasons.

At the end of the cutscene, a massive narrator begins to appear:

A book says: The Candle Dragon distinguishes day and night with its blinking and divides the seasons with its breath. However, its spiritual energy dissipated, its spirit vanished, and its legacy perished. The legend of the Candle Dragon scattered across the land. Now, its soul awakens, using its last strength to tear off its scales, transforming them into countless fragments of the Candle Dragon legend, along with the four seasons, scattered throughout the land. Players can go and collect them, allowing this story to be revived and its legacy to be passed on!

The player was stunned.

"People say that no planet in our interstellar space has four seasons, twenty-four solar terms, plants, or even natural day and night. Is it because the Zhulong legacy has disappeared?"

You actually believe that?

"Then tell me why."

"Didn't you study geography? Didn't you say that it's difficult for our planet to achieve the same deflection, revolution, and distance from its star as its parent planet..."

The character of Lin Shuying has sparked a lot of interstellar people's thinking about the four seasons, but the direction is a bit off.

That science popularizer provided a lot of information, explaining it in great detail and accuracy.

Then he replied to the player, "Is it because we don't have the Candle Dragon that our planet can't meet the various conditions of our home planet?"

One sentence completely broke the science communicator's composure...

"It's not that we can't achieve it, it's that it's unnecessary! We have high-tech training areas and high-tech residential areas, so the absence of four seasons has no impact on us. Therefore, there's no need to waste resources on those conditions."

"Then why is food so expensive? Why does the planetary lord encourage us to take supplements instead of making vegetables and food more widely available? If we had four seasons, we could farm and eat natural food."

The science popularization player directly sent a bunch of StarCraft educational books, saying, "Take a look yourself. They're all high school level knowledge points. Study hard. If you have time, go back to high school for a second year."

The player who was enlightened sent an embarrassed emoji, "Sorry, I'm a bad student. I understand."

The key point is actually just one thing: efficient use of resources.

It's not that we lack resources or natural food; these could easily cover the entire population, but it's unnecessary.

People need to work hard to earn money to buy these things, and making some resources more luxurious is also a way of indirectly regulating them.

It consumes too many resources; it's not cost-effective.

The luxury goods are there; you need to take them yourself.

In addition, having just ended the war between humans and insects, they were busy with security and recovery work, and it took nearly a century for them to begin restoring people's livelihoods.

Everything is still under investigation, and the shortcomings are easy to understand.

After watching the cutscene, players officially enter the game.

The Immortal Realm is divided into two parts: a resource area and a repair area. The resource area will be removed after the event ends, while the repair area will become a permanent instance.

The resource area contains various plants, minerals, treasure chests, and rare and precious materials. Most of the content in this event is for testing purposes, testing the latest game program that integrates with the Xianxia (fantasy martial arts) system.

Collecting rare and precious materials is useless, but they can be sold to the official authorities.

To prevent hamster players from collecting them excessively, the drop rate was designed to be extremely low, with top-tier items almost impossible to obtain.

Other players might sell items they don't need, but hamster players are special; they like to put everything in their warehouse, no matter what it is.

However, Qingfengyi gives players a lot of large and spacious homesteads, which can hold a lot of space.

There are many types of minerals, such as pyrite, gold, and silver, and you may be able to find other minerals there.

When minerals are brought to the restoration area, they can be transformed into mineral resources, which in turn continuously generate minerals.

Yes, this time Lin Shuying has designed an unprecedented ant-like gameplay: allowing many players to work together to build a dungeon!

What kind of instance to build is entirely up to the player.

That was incredibly ahead of its time!

This reminds me of when I was playing games in my past life. Many players would leave comments on the game platform, and sometimes the game developers would get so angry that they would yell, "If you're so capable, why don't you do it yourself!"

Now, she has made that promise a reality, hahaha.

You can't just ignore a copy you designed yourself, can you?

In addition, this gameplay is also a test for Lin Shuying's future plans for sect, private secret realm, and small world gameplay. If this works, the private secret realm can be launched.

Upon acquisition, players' homes and gardens will be integrated and transformed into numerous Sumeru Rings...

It's so far away, but I'm so excited just thinking about it!

After watching the cutscene, players will see an option box: Please select the server you wish to repair. A friendly reminder: players from outside the server will need to pay a fee to enter the server you repair in the future. Only players who pay this fee will receive 40% of the profits. Therefore, choose your server carefully! See the specific instructions at the relevant service center.

The player paused for a moment, then slapped his forehead: I forgot again!

With a fresh breeze and renewed spirit, the first step upon entering the game is not to raid dungeons, but to read and analyze the announcements.

The player arrived at the service area, which was packed with people.

Chat Channel:

"Pictures uploaded! Pictures uploaded! Animal area, come restore the area! Animal area, come restore the area! Pet Pavilion, Battle Pet Pavilion, and Beast Pavilion have joined forces to create this! Pictures, pictures!"

The image shows the latest announcement, with a focus on the descriptions of the animals.

Objective: To attract players to join.

A single repair zone requires 100 million players to be selected during the event, and Lin Shuying certainly doesn't want a large number of repair zones to be empty deserts.

Once these repair areas are completed, it's equivalent to adding 1000 more dungeon areas, and these aren't created by players grinding for them; they're designed and completed by the players themselves.

And you can even get 60% of the profits, that's awesome!

Because it uses a technique that shrinks the player's body and expands the map tenfold, the maintenance cost is very high, and only about 10% of the 60% revenue can be turned into profit.

However, it's a business with no initial investment; every penny earned is a huge profit.

To maximize profits, Lin Shuying deliberately made the announcement sound very fantastical.

It is particularly emphasized that players should create resource-specific and unique repair areas so that other players will have demand and can generate more revenue.

If you have a unique mineral resource that others don't, once the event ends and the resource zone closes, won't others be able to only buy from you?

They'll get the monopoly profits, won't they?

Many players were thrilled. What could be better than making money while lying down?

Chest Muscle Daddy and Deng Yijun quietly slipped out of the crowd and returned to Deng Yijun's Golden Jade Hall player pavilion.

The muscular guy asked, "Which resource should we choose?"

The assistant exclaimed excitedly, "It's definitely mineral resources! Who doesn't know that mining is the most profitable thing? You can make money in real life, and it's the same in the game. Especially for players in Huaxia Jianghu, the demand for minerals is extremely high. Sister Xunmei needs hundreds of catties of Xuan Iron a day to repair weapons, which is not enough to open treasure chests. The treasure chests in Huaxia Jianghu are going crazy!"

Other cabinet members also discussed it and ultimately agreed that the mine was the best option.

Resources like iron ore and gold ore are especially useful for making many items, including clothing, armor, saddles, jewelry, furniture, tools, and more, which are the main products of Qingfengyi.

After everyone finished their discussion, Deng Yijun said, "We will focus on rare and precious materials and plants. In addition, we will pay special attention to the exotic treasures in the resource areas."

Assistant: "Huh? Boss, the announcement said those are unusable resources. And the drop rate is too low, with a maximum of 1 in 100,000 and a minimum of zero. We probably won't be able to find a single one. Are we going to have to create the first desert dungeon in the entire server?"

Deng Yijun asked with a smile, "If it's useless, why design it in the first place?"

Chest Muscle Boss: "Of course, it's to make collecting Four Seasons Fragments easier for everyone. The drop rate and quantity of those item fragments are extremely high."

Deng Yijun looked around at the countless players in the pavilion, but instead of speaking openly, she said, "Isn't the most valuable thing in this event the fragments?"

Everyone suddenly realized!

"Wait a minute, Master, this event requires fragments, but not at other times. This is a permanent dungeon."

Deng Yijun: "Those rare and precious materials will become extinct in the future, so we'll open an exhibition hall for them."

"Forehead......."

What a unique idea! It's probably truly one of a kind. In this respect, the Pavilion Master has grasped the essence of Qingfengyi's announcement.

After everyone left, the assistant and the muscular guy stared at him expectantly, determined not to look away until he said something.

Deng Yijun: "My family said..."

The three returned to Deng Yijun's small residence, which was increasingly decorated in a style befitting a powerful figure, exuding understated luxury. The furnishings and displays were natural and harmonious, and the shelves were filled with rare and priceless treasures that made one's mouth water.

The guest servants and pets are well-trained, and the place is very peaceful.

The Flower Fairy and the Bamboo Fairy helped clean the house, tidy the garden, and polish the ornaments, occasionally making adjustments according to their own aesthetic sense. The two were always amazed when they saw it, but when they went home to train their own servants and pets, they only received beatings.

The guy with the big chest muscles quietly sidled up to Deng Yijun and asked, "Boss, how exactly do you train them? Can you teach me a few tricks?"

If he can manage his retainers and pets like this, he'll be invincible!

Deng Yijun laughed and said, "Winning people over with virtue, the demeanor of a gentleman attracts talented people, and a kind and benevolent attitude makes one a respected figure. There's no other way."

In short, he's too handsome, too good, and too charming...

The assistant muttered, "The boss is getting more and more shameless; no wonder he's being hunted down."

Now, not only are a group of wealthy people hunting down Deng Yijun, but they're also paying people to do so. The news alone can sell for 200 Star Coins.

Deng Yijun, that guy, made nearly ten thousand yuan selling his own information.

The goal wasn't money, it was just to watch them break down for fun...

The more debts you have, the more burdened you feel; you almost wish you could owe more, as if you were earning a dollar for every penny you owe.

Deng Yijun didn't waste any words and told the two, "The three of us will split up and lead teams to sweep up the rare and precious resources in the resource areas. Whatever we get, we'll put it all into the restoration area we've designated. The restoration area will be divided into three, and the profits from each area will be split. The mining area will be for players who join later, and those who think there's no future in rare and precious resources will be considered outsiders. Xiao Song, you'll be in charge of this area. Prohibit them from going to other areas. If they want to go to other areas, they must simultaneously search for resources in those areas. Whoever gets good resources will be bought back at a high price. Tell them that if there are rare and precious resources outside, we'll buy them back at any cost. As long as we get the items, I'll give them a commission. You'll be in charge of the second area, Chest Muscle. This area is for planting, but not flowers and grass. Plant the new herbs and special plants that appear in the announcements, especially rare plants. Plant as many as you can. Collect the seeds and continue planting. I'll be in charge of the last area. For now, there are only the three of us inside. If any friends want to join, I'll have to approve them. I'll also find two more people to join us. More people means more work."