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    ## Chapter 72: You’re More Awesome Than Shen Xiang

    Good!

    After months of development and polishing!

    Just two and a half months after Huayun Digital’s grand publicity campaign (which Shen Miao Miao was completely unaware of)

    Survival Road finally completed all its engineering, fixed all known bugs as much as possible, and passed the National Sensory Pod Entertainment Electronic Product Safety Assessment!

    It received its distribution number.

    It is set to officially go live on the ArtJoy platform on Qingming Festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day).

    10.85 million yuan!

    This is the first Golden Wind project to invest over 10 million since its inception!

    To complete the development, Golden Wind has truly put its all into it!

    Almost all the profits from the game are extracted and then invested in this project as much as possible!

    From Shen Miao Miao’s point of view, this is a life-or-death gamble!

    Holding a hundredfold return card, if she loses everything, she will instantly gain almost 1.1 billion yuan!

    At that time, she will achieve financial freedom on the spot, achieve her ideal of being a lazy person (咸鱼), escape her dad’s arrangements for her life, become a woman as free as the wind, buy a yacht of her own, sail the ocean, and travel the world!

    As for Golden Wind?

    She certainly wouldn’t shut it down, instead, she’d take a couple hundred million from her own funds and inject it into the company as a restart fund.

    After that, she would hand it over to Gu Sheng, allowing him to use it as a starting point to achieve his dreams and reach the peak of his life!

    If the company makes a profit, Gu Sheng can give her a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand in dividends each year.

    If Gu Sheng doesn’t want to, it doesn’t matter, she doesn’t rely on that hundred thousand or two hundred thousand to live anyway.

    This is Shen Miao Miao’s ideal situation.

    But on the Iron Triangle side!

    The three of them, headed by Gu Sheng, also see this project as a life-or-death gamble!

    As the pioneering work of the second-generation FPS,

    the Iron Triangle received the company’s maximum support, naturally, they also need to reward the company’s trust with the best results!

    Moreover, in the Iron Triangle’s eyes, this is a gamble where only success is allowed, failure is not!

    On the one hand, the game market is very brutal, most of the time, success and failure happen in an instant.

    If this game explodes, the name of the second-generation FPS will also be established; conversely, if it fails, then the second-generation FPS will become one of the biggest laughingstocks in the gaming circle, never to recover.

    On the other hand, they don’t know that Little Nezha holds a BUG-level system!

    In other words, in the Iron Triangle’s view, this game, which has absorbed almost all the company’s profits, once it fails!

    Its impact on Golden Wind will be devastating!

    Whatever, Little Nezha has Shen’s capital behind him.

    Don’t they know that?

    Shen’s capital is just a nominal thing!

    From the establishment of the company to the present, they haven’t provided them with a single penny, and they won’t!

    Once it fails!

    Little Nezha will go home, either directly inherit the family business, or inherit the family business through a business marriage!

    And the three of them will find other jobs!

    Although!

    This worst-case scenario doesn’t sound that bad.

    After all, Little Nezha won’t lose everything, and Gu Sheng, as a supernova, is now a hot figure in the domestic gaming circle.

    Even if he has failed, there will still be people vying for him, and with the system in hand, there’s no need to worry about not making a comeback.

    However!

    Gu Sheng just doesn’t want to see this ending!

    Although he doesn’t know why.

    He just has a feeling that he cannot accept this failure!

    Absolutely not!

    The wind rises on Qingming Festival!

    8pm sharp!

    Under ArtJoy’s repeated full-platform promotional recommendations!

    Survival Road

    Goes live on time!

    “Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Happy New Year!!!”

    At 8pm, Sister Zhou appeared on the livestream on time!

    Wearing a specially customized, extra-long watermelon strip plush headwear, she started acting up right away!

    “Family… who understands…”

    “Survival Road finally officially went live…”

    “No postponement… I’m happy…”

    The barrage is numb, the screen is full of [bad luck]!

    ‘You’re really down, head, down!’

    ‘Tsk, I just opened up Shark (streaming platform) and saw the confident watermelon on the homepage, bad luck…’

    ‘Grass! You have to watch my Sister Zhou for the act!’

    ‘No… can you do something normal?’

    ‘Other people are pretending to be abstract, you and Medicine Brother (another streamer) are really abstract’

    ‘Abstract? Where’s the abstract? Who’s abstract? (Shengzi Ge peeks his head out)’

    ‘Hahahahahaha right there’s also Golden Wind’

    ‘At this time, I’m really numb, Qingming Festival game launch, this operation can only be done by Golden Wind’

    ‘Don’t be a jerk! Quick! Summon Captain Yin! Survival!’

    ‘I can’t even survive a single day in April! I’ve been waiting for today!’

    ‘Without Survival, I feel like there are ants crawling all over me, finally, I’ve waited for it (yawns, cries, twists and turns)’

    ‘Dude, your withdrawal symptoms are too severe…’

    ‘Make! FPS! Great! Again!’

    ‘…’

    Millions of people are looking forward to it! Called for thousands of times!

    Seeing that the stream hasn’t even started, the barrage is already flying with gifts, Sister Zhou can’t help but feel excited!

    She throws away the watermelon strip!

    “Let’s do this!!! I’ve been practicing my aiming every day for the past two months! Today I have to prove it to you!”

    “Special Forces Zhou Shuyi! Requesting to go into battle!!!”

    As soon as she finished speaking!

    Pineapple’s WeChat call came in:

    “Zhou Zhou! Zhou Zhou! We’ve been waiting for you! Come quickly!”

    “Oh oh! I’m coming, I’m coming!”

    Soon!

    The Survival Squad regrouped!

    As always, A Yin leads, Six Six, Sister Zhou, and Pineapple are the team members.

    After a two-month absence, standing on the rooftop again, A Yin feels a surge of excitement!

    After Golden Wind’s further refinements in these days, the game’s in-game graphics quality has visibly improved.

    Whether it’s the level of detail in scene modeling, the quality of lighting, or the gun glare, everything has gone up a notch.

    Although, as Gu Sheng said, limited by funds, their graphics quality is still not as good as XunTeng’s Fearless Sniper.

    But the overall quality is already very good, very immersive.

    “Say a few words!”

    Organizing his team again, A Yin clears his throat and speaks in the team’s voice chat:

    “Two months of training! I believe our team, in terms of skills, has taken a qualitative leap forward!”

    “Today! It’s time to test us!”

    “So next, let’s shout our slogan——!!!”

    After saying that!

    He hears Sister Zhou, Six Six, and Pineapple all shout in unison:

    “Three points one line——! Aim before you shoot——!”

    Pfft——

    The barrage burst out laughing on the spot!

    ‘My evaluation is—I can’t hold it in’

    ‘Hahahahahahaha what kind of psychological shadow did this create for the boss…’

    ‘I was just drinking water, grass, all over the keyboard’

    ‘My mom told me to get out and laugh’

    ‘It’s too much of a show, my evaluation is that it’s on par with the ghost-catching squad’

    ‘Isn’t this better than the Spring Festival Gala?’

    ‘It feels like this slogan has a bad omen from the inside out’ ‘I can already see the ending…’

    ‘…’

    In the barrage, the audience roars with laughter.

    But Captain Yin is very satisfied with his team’s answer: “Well! Very good! Very energetic!”

    Then, he sees A Yin picking up the fire axe, with a wave of his hand!

    “Open the door! Charge with me!”

    Bang!

    The rooftop door opens, and the group of them go down the stairs in a familiar yet unfamiliar way, returning to the familiar yet unfamiliar stairwell.

    As the four of them go down, the name of the level also faintly appears on their heads-up displays—Death Center.

    The reason it’s familiar is because the stairwell is the same as the one in the demo, the way down is blocked, the familiar fire door is closed.

    And the reason it’s strange is because in the official version, Gu Sheng has added flame effects to some of the obstacles.

    The entire stairwell is filled with flames, smoke is billowing, and dark blue smoke is rising and swirling at the top of the corridor.

    At the end of the corridor, there’s still the familiar zombie dude.

    But this time, A Yin doesn’t choose a handgun, instead, he grabs the fire axe.

    He’d wanted to try this thing in the demo experience.

    Unfortunately, before he could do it, he was shot to death by his good teammates.

    This time, he has to experience the feel of melee combat.

    “This zombie and the zombie horde are too close,”

    A Yin turns around and tells them:

    “As soon as it falls, the horde is sure to be alarmed, I’ll lead them over, pay attention, you must, must…”

    “Aim before you shoot!!!”

    Captain Yin is clearly psychologically traumatized by his three teammates, he tells them again and again.

    “Okay!” Six Six nods.

    “No problem!” Pineapple promises.

    “Captain Yin, just go ahead!” Sister Zhou gives him a thumbs-up.

    A Yin opens his mouth: “…This doesn’t sound like a good thing, dammit.”

    He mutters to himself!

    A Yin doesn’t dwell on it, he picks up the fire axe and creeps behind the zombie.

    He slowly raises his arm holding the fire axe, gathering all his strength!

    This is an instinctive reaction for A Yin.

    After all, this is a sensory pod, in this immersive atmosphere, people tend to make instinctive movements.

    Of course!

    In A Yin’s mind, this is just psychological comfort.

    After all, in the games he’s played before, no matter how hard he swings, the effect of a cold weapon is the same.

    It’s just the zombie’s head spurting blood, then the ragdoll system kicks in, and they fall to the ground with a thud.

    Then, he hears A Yin roar!

    “Hey——!!!”

    Buzz——!

    Crack——Hiss——Click!!!

    He swings his axe in a circle and chops down!

    The next second, he sees the sharp fire axe, like chopping wood, goes down from top to bottom, and actually cleaves the zombie in half!

    Pfft——!!!

    The gushing blood is like a downpour, splattering all over A Yin’s face, even his vision is filled with a crimson color!

    As the severed body falls, the scattered blood splatters all over the corridor floor!

    A Yin’s pupils dilate!

    At this moment!

    He finally remembers, before all the disclaimers, the one that Golden Wind specifically marked and Huayun Digital strictly regulated and customized—

    16+ (M) level!

    Yes!

    Two years ago, in order to regulate the game market and encourage the development of sensory pod games in a healthy and stable environment, Huayun Digital took the lead, with the active cooperation of relevant departments, the game rating system was implemented.

    And Survival Road, because of the large number of scenes of bloody violence, was specially classified as a restricted game for minors!

    At first, A Yin didn’t care, after all, he’s seen a lot of shooting games, it’s just blood splattering.

    But he never expected that.

    Under Gu Sheng’s ingenious “dismemberment system”, the zombie’s death effect is so outrageous!

    Most importantly!

    Golden Wind’s control of the level of gore is just right!

    Whether it’s the excessive amount of blood or the dismemberment, it’s at the balance point between realism and virtuality!

    Not only does it not make people feel uncomfortable, it even has a bit of… the refreshing feeling of chopping melons and vegetables???

    “What! The! Fuck!!!”

    A Yin is shocked!

    A Yin, who had never experienced such a kill feedback system, burst out swearing!

    And the next second!

    Snap!

    The livestream is instantly blocked——

    【This streamer is suspected of violating regulations, is currently being rectified, please wait…】

    The barrage explodes!

    ‘I’m f**ked! This blood volume!!!’

    ‘Hahahahahaha the axe cleaved the livestream in half…’

    ‘Back then, Shen Xiang didn’t have this visual impact when he cut people, you’re more awesome than Shen Xiang!’

    ‘WDNMD, it’s too exaggerated! Really! This f**king effect is really too exaggerated!’

    ‘As expected of 16+! It’s worth it!!!’

    ‘What the f**k… this game… What the f**k…’

    ‘As we all know, words cannot convey sound (funny)’

    ‘First, I’m not a freak, second, this really looks too relaxing (crying)’

    ‘He Lan doesn’t support…’

    ‘MFGA!!!’

    ‘I thought the ragdoll system was already the limit of kill performance, but this dismemberment system is really outrageous, too outrageous…’

    ‘Can you still do it, boss! I can’t take it anymore! I’m going to play myself if you don’t!’

    ‘Team up, team up, team up… leave your IDs, brothers!’

    ‘I feel like there are ants crawling all over me…’

    ‘Me too, my withdrawal symptoms are getting stronger…’

    ‘…’

    Just as the viewers on the ArtJoy X1 platform are getting restless and ready to experience it for themselves!

    “I’m back, I’m back, I’m f**ked…”

    A Yin starts his livestream again:

    “Sorry guys, I really didn’t pay attention to that rating at first, the super admins reminded me, the livestream is now rated, so it can stream normally.”

    Hearing this, the audience looks over, and they see that the heat of the livestream has indeed dropped by tens of thousands, presumably some viewers under 16 have been automatically kicked out.

    However!

    The barrage is still hot!

    After all, only a small proportion of viewers are affected by the rating restrictions!

    In fact, the barrage is even more enthusiastic than before!

    ‘The rating system, I’ll f**king praise it forever!!!’

    ‘Thanks to Huayun Digital! If it wasn’t for the rating, this game wouldn’t have passed the review!’

    ‘I have no talent, I’ll give Huayun Digital a bow’

    ‘By the way, I’ll give Shengzi Ge a bow, this dismemberment system is too f**king awesome…’

    ‘Then I’ll give the art modeling team a bow, the visual effects are too good…’

    ‘And me, I’ll give the program design team a bow, the overall performance is too good…’

    ‘Then I’ll give Ou Zong (CEO) a bow, thanks for the production…’

    ‘Wow! It’s really Qingming Festival! I come into the livestream and I see a group of people visiting graves…’

    ‘Hahahahahaha——!!!’

    ——

    PS: Please throw your monthly tickets at me! I’ll update tomorrow!

    (End of chapter)

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