Chapter 20 Colleagues are preparing for the competition (birthday extra update)

Although Ye Xuan is the "material" for this year's (actually the first) "Youmeng Emoji Contest", it is impossible for him to appear on camera in person and make various expressions.

"The best work will be presented at the moment of taking a screenshot of the game." Sister Lin used her mobile phone to register for the competition in front of him. "There is also a registration channel for employees. You should be a judge."

What does the judge mean? He also wants to judge who made the best emoticon of his?

Ye Xuan looked at the words "Registration successful" that appeared on the other party's mobile phone, and once again doubted whether he had made the right choice for this job.

Sister Lin stood up from Ye Xuan's office chair: "You, just prepare yourself well. As for the matter of facial expression management..."

"I'll try to provide more material," he replied helplessly, "Goodbye."

After she went out and closed the door, Ye Xuan collapsed in the chair with his face covered.

It's so hard for me, he thought.

He found that he had become a "celebrity" in the company recently, and many people greeted him when he went to the cafeteria to eat.

"Can I sit here?" A petite and cute girl walked to Ye Xuan's table with a tray.

The number of seats in the cafeteria is limited during peak meal times, so it is normal to eat at the same table.

"Of course." Ye Xuan recognized the face he would see at work tomorrow—the receptionist who gave him a bag of marshmallows on his first day at work.

She smiled and sat down, the jelly on her plate swaying.

Ye Xuan doesn't eat sweets very often, because these foods with high sugar content are not only not filling for him, but also expensive. Even if the company provides meals after work, he will not choose desserts.

But he still felt that eating sweets could indeed make people feel happy, but he was used to being frugal and didn't dare to touch this beauty.

Seeing that he was staring at the jelly, the girl said, "The jelly in the cafeteria is very good, with just the right sweetness, and it's many times tastier than the packaged jelly in the supermarket. It's quite close to the dessert window, why don't you go get some too?"

"No thanks," Ye Xuan said without any context, "Thank you for the marshmallows."

Although the candy was taken away by Sister Lin, I still felt the sweetness.

Thank you to all the people who have been kind to me. It is you who have made me feel the warmth and kindness of the world.

…

"In order to allow more players participating in the competition to capture your various expressions, you have worked hard to run around the game map more often during this period of time." In the small meeting room, Sister Lin gave Ye Xuan a few instructions.

He recalled the experience of getting lost: "No, sister, it seems that the employees in the game can't choose the map to switch their location?"

The interviewer took over the conversation: "It's okay, just walk around and you will reach another map. I think you can use the transportation in the closet skillfully."

Could you please not speak so lightly all the time?

The three people in the small conference room fell silent. They each took out their mobile phones and opened the Youmeng official forum at the same time.

"Xiao Xuan," Sister Lin was the first to break the silence, "You see, netizens are very much looking forward to this competition. It would be such a pity if we couldn't let more players see you in the game."

“Then sister, you go talk to that group of people and ask them to develop new features as soon as possible.” The only real NPC in the company became a little proud after being praised by that group of people on the forum, and even spoke less politely to his seniors.

Sister Lin didn't care about that. She slapped the kid on the head and said, "You got so angry when I told you you were fat. Are you over the rookie period?"

"Yes, yes, sister, I was wrong." He was just joking and didn't dare to put himself in too high a position.

"Very good." The interviewer seemed completely unperturbed by the two people beside him, and read a few forum posts about the game by himself. "That's fine, everyone is looking forward to you. I said, the charm of the game is irresistible."

Ye Xuan had long been accustomed to people calling him "Ye Xing". He instantly realized that the other person was talking to him and responded with a few words.

During the discussion, the time for the game to start was getting closer.

There was a small meeting every three days and a big meeting every five days. After half a month, apart from my own office and the cafeteria, I was most familiar with the conference room.

Well, he didn’t have much business dealings with other departments, and the connections were not close, so it was natural for him to be “unsociable”.

Now in the company, apart from Sister Lin and the interviewer, he is only familiar with the girl at the front desk.

Following the other party's recommendation, he tried several desserts from the company cafeteria, which were indeed good and no worse than those from professional dessert shops outside.

"Let me tell you, there is a dessert in our cafeteria that is truly 'amazing'. I was stunned when I took the first bite." When the little girl talked about desserts, her eyes seemed to be shining.

Ye Xuan said half-doubtfully, "Is it really that magical? Why haven't I seen you order it before?"

"It's not that I don't want to eat," the light in her eyes dimmed, "It's that the chef doesn't come often! It's okay if the supply is limited, but you can't wait for ten days or half a month to get one, okay? I've only been able to eat it twice in half a year since I started working here!"

The girl, who is as sweet and lovely as a delicate little cake, shows a completely different side of herself when talking about desserts.

"Isn't that chef an employee of our company?" he guessed.

"He's a good employee," the girl shook her finger, "but he's not in the cafeteria. He's in charge of the development of food in Dream Travel, focusing on desserts and drinks."

No wonder the ice drink last time was so delicious, it turns out I really put a lot of effort into it.

Ye Xuan recalled the drink he had in the cafe when he was a delivery man, and was even more looking forward to the dessert the other party mentioned.

"Some parts of our game are very realistic," he said, remembering that he sometimes even forgot he was in the game. "This is also a major selling point. Why are they using me as a promotional point these days?"

"You're very popular." The girl at the front desk pulled up a few web pages for the other party to see. "They're all praising you. Many people even come to play Dream Travel just for you."

Ye Xuan would occasionally visit forums, but he didn't pay much attention to anything other than the forum posts. For example, he had never used the social software on the other person's phone that seemed to be particularly popular among young people.

"What does it say?" He was somewhat curious about what the netizens there thought of him.

The girls picked out a few and read: "Ahhhh, this little brother is really approachable! I just asked 'Can I take a photo with you' and he posed instantly! I'm a fan!"

She imitated the tone and emotions perfectly, and Ye Xing believed that the person in front of him was the best choice for the real-life NPC.

"Is it that exaggerated? I'm not a celebrity..." He scratched his head embarrassedly.

"But you are very popular in the entire online gaming community now. I heard that someone is planning to set up a 'fan club' or something like that." She smiled and told me about the news she saw on a certain social networking platform.

Ye Xuan, who is "very popular", sighed: "I hope nothing goes wrong. I just want to work hard now."

"Don't be so unambitious," Sister Lin said out of nowhere, "Xiao Xuan, if you are good enough, our game will be very popular."

No way, is the company going to collapse? How can we entrust him with the task of making the game popular?

The helpless salted fish who just wants to do his job well.jpg

…

As the competition approaches, Ye Xing has more and more things to prepare for, and sometimes Sister Lin even drags him to visit other departments.

Although he was not familiar with his colleagues, he was a familiar face to them. Someone even asked him to sign as a joke, and he signed stupidly.

"If you become rich and powerful, don't forget me." Sister Lin said quietly as she looked at the name Ye Xing signed on that colleague's notebook.

He handed the notebook back, turned to her, and said with a serious expression: "I will definitely not forget your help to me."

After saying that, he began to wonder in his mind what the other party had done to help him.

To be fair, although Sister Lin would cheat him on some "small things", she would also comfort him when he was troubled. She is a very good senior.

Maybe everything has its first and last name. After he signed his name, people came to him one after another to ask for his autograph in a joking manner.

Ye Xuan thought that his name only had two characters and not many strokes, so he just signed it and regarded it as practice.

He didn't think about why he wanted to "practice" signing, he just signed one page after another, just like writing in a yearbook in school.

When he was in school, yearbooks were popular in his class from time to time. Even if graduation was still a long way off, as long as he saw someone buying one, the students who followed the trend would definitely save some money from their pocket money to buy a fancy notebook or box.

He didn't have the spare money to buy such things, but other people in the class would definitely not leave him out when writing the yearbook, and he also wrote his name on the signature cardboards one by one.

Yes, most of those yearbooks are loose-leaf, and one of them is a slightly thicker page that serves as a simplified signature wall.

He didn't feel comfortable taking his homework paper to other students for signatures, so he signed his name on the paperboards that were handed to him by each student.

"Xiao Xuan?" Sister Lin waved her hand in front of his eyes, calling him back like a soul. "How come you are so stupid just signing your name? You sat there for a long time without moving. I was scared to death."

"I'm fine." Ye Xuan found that he still had a pen in his hand.

Sister Lin looked him over and said, "You don't look very well mentally. Have you been too busy lately and haven't had much rest?"

Before he could even utter a word "no", Sister Lin pushed him towards the game cabin: "Lie down and rest for a while."

What kind of rest is this? Even if it is an immersive sleep game cabin, it can't be called sleeping in the game!

Ye Xuan was forcibly “pushed” into the game cabin, and he resigned himself to his fate by swiping his work ID.

"Ding Dong - Employee account '325074' has been detected, loading game data."

That's fine, he can just walk around in the game to warm up for the competition, and maybe he can even taste the delicious food developed by the chef.

"Data loading failed." A prompt tone appeared that Ye Xuan had never heard before.

"Sister Lin," he opened the hatch, "what's going on? It says the loading failed."