Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 271

The large relief sculpture is complete, almost as good as a sculpture in the round. The figures are enormous, incredibly lifelike, and full of detail; you really can't take your eyes off it.

The second large red olive relief depicts Guan Yu, wielding a crescent-shaped blade and riding his Red Hare horse. He has a ruddy complexion, a long beard, and wears a turban-like hat. He is dressed in flowing robes and possesses a robust and powerful physique.

The third piece depicts Zhang Fei, wielding a long spear in one hand and chasing his horse in the other, carved from a dark olive-colored stone. He has a fierce face, wide, angry eyes, a tall and strong physique, and a large, dignified belly.

Next to the three carved nut pieces are three very small blank spaces resembling auspicious clouds, on which the names of weapons, horses, and figures are carved.

It has names and surnames, and clicking on the carving will display the story of the Oath of the Peach Garden. The story comes with a video, which is an animated version, because although the old live-action version was quite good, and Lin Shuying has also seen it, she really can't remember the specifics. She was probably too young when she watched it, just watching it with her father, and the technology of the interstellar era couldn't detect the specific content.

Although the video is an animated version, the nut carving is realistic, with each figure lifelike, their clothes fluttering in the wind, and even the finest hairs visible. The simple images alone have captivated many players, who have posted prices below, hoping this player will sell it to them.

The sculpture shown by this player has been shown by many other players. Although the themes are different and the popularity is high, everyone's enthusiasm is now focused on the underworld, and this small wave has quickly been pushed away.

"What's going on in the underworld? Did those who raised the issues just come out of there? Come and report quickly!"

"Yes, yes, those who are obsessed with walnut carvings, let's wait a bit, let's discuss it again after the Underworld craze has died down, let's discuss it again."

Where are the players who came out of the underworld?

The world chat channel was too busy to reply. The players who had been kicked out of the underworld were leaving messages like crazy on the official account. They were afraid that the number of players who had gone in was too small to make a splash, so they spammed the chat, with each person leaving at least twenty messages.

Soon, many players who hadn't been there before joined in. Although they didn't know what had happened, they figured it was always best to stick together and copy and paste. Then, another miracle occurred under the Qingfengyi official account: everyone was asking what had just happened and why they'd been kicked out while playing.

Zhang Zhongxia and his team quickly noticed that the data didn't match up. The first wave of players only numbered one million, but now billions were reporting feedback, making it impossible to handle. He had previously received information that those one million players played until the 48-hour limit, meaning that at most only around two million players had actually entered the game.

He relayed the message to the game design department and Lin Qiaoqiao. Due to Lin Shuying's health condition, Qingfengyi's employees consciously avoided bothering her with trivial matters and kept important matters as simple as possible so that she could understand them with minimal effort.

Lin Qiaoqiao said, "Qingfengyi's players are a unified group. The feedback within the top one million is genuine, and the rest are just bandwagoners, so we don't need to worry about them. Let them find the answers in the announcement service."

"Ok."

Players quickly learned that each entry was limited to 48 hours!

"Ugh, Qingfengyi, what's with this duration for the promised permanent dungeon?"

"They look down on our endurance, they really don't, boohoo."

"My mech marshal, how could 48 hours possibly be enough for me? You have no idea what's in the underworld. There's a city of millions of ghosts, a mountain of broken coins, the ghost city of Fengdu, the eighteen levels of hell, the Bridge of Helplessness, the Judge's Mansion, a sea of ​​golden lanterns, a river of blood, a mountain of white bones... Ahhh!"

"Family members, since Qingfengyi isn't giving us face, we'll have to find our own. We're recruiting fellow enthusiasts to travel to the underworld. We'll assign tasks to film the underworld and then make it into a travel video. Anyone want to join? It's free."

Who would go for free?

"I'm offering payment, but who's interested? If I'm paying, I won't get a share of the subsequent revenue from the videos."

"I'll assemble a team here, and everyone will split the video revenue equally."

The screen below was filled with messages looking for teams, the effectiveness of which is unknown, as everyone disappeared after making their calls. However, judging from the content of the messages, the players are exceptionally good at finding ways to make money; they've already discovered a way to make money as soon as the dungeon has revealed its basic information.

"Sigh, when will Qingfengyi become a popular game and company? I hope it will become as widespread in our lives as Danone Group, Baiwei Group, or Sprayer Group."

"I wish so too. They're so scarce right now, you can't buy them even if you have the money."

"That's fine, but when did Qingfengyi start seriously making money?! I've prepared countless interstellar coins, hoping that I can win one every time Qingfengyi auctions, sob sob sob."

Does shooting Qingfengyi's stuff have anything to do with whether Qingfengyi makes money or not?

"It's incredibly important. According to the basic rules of commodity circulation—scarcity drives up value—Qingfengyi's products should have been exorbitantly priced from the start. Only the wealthy could afford them, while the lower classes could only envy them and wait for production to increase before they could afford them. But Qingfengyi did the opposite, starting with prices so low that others couldn't even compete in the high-end market. As a result, I haven't been able to buy a single genuine Qingfengyi product to this day!"

"Exactly, I'm also very rich, but I still haven't been able to buy anything from Qingfengyi. Does Qingfengyi discriminate against rich people? Most of their products are bought by ordinary people. I tried to buy them from them, but they wouldn't sell. I'm so sad, sob sob."

The two messages silenced the other players, leaving the world chat empty except for those two blank messages. At that moment, countless players seemed to feel an even stronger sense of belonging to Qingfengyi!

After about a minute of silence, someone finally spoke: "Family members, Qingfengyi is my god."

"He is also my god!"

"Even after so many years of interstellar development, there was still a hierarchy among humans. But in Qingfengyi, there isn't. We've accumulated everything we like entirely through our own luck and hard work!"

"I've always known that there's a hierarchy among people, but at least I have a better life now than in ancient times, and I can talk about my dreams a little. I just never expected someone to dance right in front of me, Qingfengyi is my god! Here, I've received any kind of equal treatment, I'm devastated!"

"I couldn't help but reply to that rich guy above. Do you know why most of them are bought by ordinary people? Because ordinary people are the majority of people in this world."

"Alright, alright, stop with the nonsense. You're polluting this pure land of Qingfengyi. We're still recruiting for a free group shoot of the Underworld."

"Here it comes, the one that's free, add me. I still have one more chance to join."

.......

A little bit of heartache didn't dampen everyone's enthusiasm for Qingfengyi; it seems that just lingering in Qingfengyi for a short while can provide the best healing.